How long does it take to read Poems?
Poems by E. E. Cummings takes about 15 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 53 minutes
A long haul
First published 1960. 866 pages, about 238,150 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized on the one hand as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language, and on the other as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. This is the first selection from the poems of E.E. Cummings to be published since 1959, three years before his death. The one hundred and fifty-six poems selected by Richard S. Kennedy, Cummings's biographer (Dreams in the Mirror), are arranged in twelve sections, with introductions by Kennedy for each section. Also included are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published. The selection includes most of the favorites plus many fresh and surprising examples of Cummings's several poetic styles. The corrected texts established by George J. Firmage have been used throughout.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry, Book industries and trade, Exhibitions, Poetry
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