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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition Commemorative Edition
Author(s): Upton Uxbridge Underwood (Author), Mahendra Singh (Illustrator), Gilbert Alter-Gilbert (Commentary), Jack Passion (Introduction)
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date: 5 Oct. 2011
- Edition: Commemorative ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1616082453
- ISBN-13: 9781616082451
Book Description
Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a tongue-in-cheek classic of Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by subscription to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for the reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor cars, and smoking lounges of gentlemen’s clubs. Typifying a once-popular but nowadays seldom-encountered species of turn-of-the-century ephemera, it has become a rarity much prized by bibliophiles. See how the beards of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau stack up against those of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Also includes:
Fundamentals of Beard Flirtation, in which readers learn the etiquette and code of beard poses and gestures; fortune-telling through beard-reading (pogonomancy); beard-based folklore and controversies (Public Statues: Dignitaries or Dust Catchers?”)
