How long does it take to read The Prelude?
The Prelude by William Wordsworth takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1850. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth.
Subjects: Poetry, Authorship, Poets, Psychology, History, Literary Criticism
