It takes the average reader 2 hours and 46 minutes to read The Soul Is a Stranger in This World by Micah Mattix
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The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet “as a man speaking to men,” as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like André du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World by Micah Mattix is 164 pages long, and a total of 41,656 words.
This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Soul Is a Stranger in This World aloud.
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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