How long does it take to read Poetics?
Poetics by Aristotle takes about 2 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 22 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1536. 129 pages, about 35,475 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 252 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the first books written on what is now called aesthetics. Although parts are lost (e.g., comedy), it has been very influential in western thought, such as the part on tragedy.
Subjects: Aesthetics, Poetry, Poetics, Philosophy and esthetics, Style, Ancient Rhetoric
