How long does it take to read The Portable Blake?
The Portable Blake by William Blake takes about 13 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 4 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1946. 713 pages, about 196,075 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.
Subjects: Fiction, Poetry, Poesia Inglesa, Romanticism, Romanticism in art, Romanticism, great britain
More by William Blake
Poems 4.1 h 
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 56 min 
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1.5 h 
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 2.6 h 
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition 23.9 h 
The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A 20.4 h 
