Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
Underwood, Upton Uxbridge
ISBN 10: 1616082453 ISBN 13: 9781616082451
Published by Skyhorse Publishing, 2011
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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?”)
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The ...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Singh, Mahendra
Condition: Very Good