How Long to Read The Poems of W. B. Yeats

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poems of W. B. Yeats?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 33 minutes to read The Poems of W. B. Yeats by Peter McDonald

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. In this second volume, the poems of Yeats’s early maturity emerge in the contexts of his engagement with Irish history and myth, along with nationalist politics; his increasing involvement with ritual magic and esoteric lore; and his turbulent, often unhappy, personal life. The poems of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) reveal a poet of intense narrative power and metaphorical resource, adept at transforming miscellaneous sources into haunting and original poems. A major revision of his earlier narrative, ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’, takes place in this decade when Yeats is also taken up with the composition of elaborate and uncanny symbolic lyrics, many of them resulting from his love for Maud Gonne, that are finally collected in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). This edition makes it possible to trace in detail Yeats’s debts to folklore and magic, alongside his involved and often difficult private and public life, in poetry of exceptional complexity and power.

How long is The Poems of W. B. Yeats?

The Poems of W. B. Yeats by Peter McDonald is 624 pages long, and a total of 158,496 words.

This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 194% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poems of W. B. Yeats Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 26 minutes to read The Poems of W. B. Yeats aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poems of W. B. Yeats?

The Poems of W. B. Yeats is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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