Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
By (Author) Upton Uxbridge Underwood
Commentaries by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Introduction by Jack Passion
Illustrated by Mahendra Singh
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing
5th October 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Humour
818
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 133mm, Height 191mm, Spine 28mm
288g
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 gentlemens 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)
