How Long to Read Then and Now

How Long Does it Take to Read Then and Now?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Then and Now by Floyd C. Watkins

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

Description

Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a "poetic autobiography" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his family, and contemporaries from his hometown, but keeping the poetry itself constantly at the center of his vision, Watkins shows how the poetry has grown from the experience of the boy and man and from his contemplation of his family's and his country's history. He traces through the poems a family chronicle, moving from the frontier to the late twentieth century, and set in a landscape that is clearly derived from the Kentucky of Warren's boyhood. The little town of Guthrie, divided by railroad tracks, with its two burial grounds for whites and blacks, becomes in the poems a town of both memory and imagination, peopled by characters many of whom are recognizable to Warren's contemporaries. The images of a black man fleeing through swampy woods outside the town, of a grayfaced man who led a lynch mob, of a mad druggist making a list of people to poison, all have counterparts in Guthrie's history. Then and Now is a revealing and provocative study of the poetic process in a poet who is thought of as the originator of the biographical fallacy.

How long is Then and Now?

Then and Now by Floyd C. Watkins is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Then and Now Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Then and Now aloud.

What Reading Level is Then and Now?

Then and Now is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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