How long does it take to read The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry?
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater takes about 4 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1873. 225 pages, about 61,875 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 156 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance was one of the most talked about books in nineteenth-century Britain, and it remains a work of unusual importance to anyone interested in art history or English literature. Pater’s luxurious and finely wrought style inspired generations of writers, and his unique blend of scholarship, philosophy, and personal bias made his view of the quintessential ‘spirit of the renaissance’ a key subject for subsequent aesthetic debate.
Subjects: Renaissance Arts, Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics), Renaissance, Nonfiction, Italy, History
