How long does it take to read Collected Poems, 1909-1962?
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Prufrock: 1917 : The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Portrait of a lady ; Preludes ; Rhapsody on a windy night ; Morning at the window ; The Boston Evening Transcript ; Aunt Helen ; Cousin Nancy ; Mr. Apollinax ; Hysteria ; Conversation Galante ; La Figlia che Piange -- Poems: 1920. Gerontion ; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar ; Sweeney erect ; A cooking egg ; Le directeur ; Mélange adultère de tout ; Lune de Miel ; The hippopotamus ; Dans le restaurant ; Whispers of immortality ; Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service ; Sweeney among the nightingales -- The Waste Land: 1922 : The burial of the dead ; A game of chess ; The fire sermon ; Death by water ; What the thunder said ; Notes on 'The Waste Land' -- The hollow men: 1925 -- Ash Wednesday: 1930 : Because I do not hope to turn again ; Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree ; At the first turning of the second stair ; Who walked between the violet and the violet ; If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent ; Although I do not hope to turn again -- Ariel poems : Journey of the Magi, 1927 ; A song for Simeon, 1928 ; Animula, 1929 ; Marina, 1930 ; The cultivation of Christmas trees, 1954 -- Unfinished poems : Sweeney Agonistes ; Fragment of a prologue ; Fragment of an agon ; Coriolan ; Triumphal march, 1931 ; Difficulties of a statesman -- Minor poems : Eyes that last I saw in tears ; The wind sprang up at four o'clock ; Five-finger exercises ; Lines to a Persian cat ; Lines to a Yorkshire terrier ; Lines to a duck in the park ; Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre. ; Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg ; Landscapes ; New Hampshire ; Virginia ; Usk ; Rannoch, by Glencoe ; Cape Ann ; Lines for an old man -- Choruses from "The Rock": 1934 : The eagle soars in the summit of heaven ; Thus your fathers were made ; The word of the Lord came unto me, saying ; There are those who would build the temple ; O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart ; It is…
Subjects: American poetry, English poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
