Poets Ranked by Beard Weight
Author | : Upton Uxbridge Underwood |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011-09-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781628731361 |
ISBN-13 | : 1628731362 |
Rating | : 4/5 (362 Downloads) |
Download or read book Poets Ranked by Beard Weight written by Upton Uxbridge Underwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?”)