How long does it take to read The Sacred Wood?
essays on poetry and criticism
The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 171 pages, about 47,025 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920. Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante and Blake.[1] One of his most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" which was originally published in two parts in The Egoist, is a part of the The Sacred Wood collection. Contents. The perfect critic -- Imperfect critics: Swinburne as critic. A romantic aristocrat [George Wyndham] The local flavour. A note on the American critic. The French intelligence -- Tradition and the individual talent -- The possibility of a poetic drama -- Euripides and professor Murray -- "Rhetoric" and poetic drama -- Notes on the blank verse of Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet and his problems -- Ben Jonson -- Philip Massinger -- Swinburne as poet -- Blake -- Dante
Subjects: Criticism, History and criticism, Literature, history and criticism
