Yeats Selected Prose by W.B. Yeats
Published 1976 · 78,650 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is Yeats Selected Prose to read?
Yeats Selected Prose scores 69 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 72 out of 100
- Elevated literary vocabulary with occult terminology.
- Sentence structure: 75 out of 100
- Long, rhythmically shaped sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Symbol, history and the self handled abstractly.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Dense with Irish political and mythological reference.
How Yeats Selected Prose is regarded
Yeats Selected Prose holds a literary regard score of 77 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.