How long does it take to read The Classic Hundred?
William Harmon, William Blake, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Richard Lovelace, William Wordsworth
The Classic Hundred by William Harmon, William Blake, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Richard Lovelace, William Wordsworth takes about 5 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 311 pages, about 85,525 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here in one volume are the top one hundred poems, as determined by a survey of more than 1,000 anthologies - the poems in English most frequently anthologized, the poems with the broadest, most enduring appeal. With insights into the historical period in which each poem was written, the verse form used, and connections among poems, this is the ideal introduction to poetry, as well as a treasury for the dedicated reader.
Subjects: English poetry, American poetry, English poetry (collections), American poetry (collections), Poetry, collections
