How long does it take to read Leaves of Grass?
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1855. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 755 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Walt Whitman, an American poet, issues this evolving verse volume in 1855 and keeps reworking it for the rest of his life, so that the earliest printing of twelve poems grows into a final edition of more than four hundred. Its subject is Whitman's outlook on existence and humanity. He honors nature, the individual's place within it, and the breadth of American democracy, giving his attention to the body and the physical world instead of religion. His lines largely abandon rhyme, regular meter, and set line lengths, and they openly embrace sensual pleasure.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Manuscripts, Gay poets, Presidents, Poetry, American Poets, Fiction
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