Poets Ranked by Beard Weight
Author(s): Underwood
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 )
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Skyhorse Publishing
- : Skyhorse Publishing
- : 0.281
- : October 2011
- : 191mm X 136mm X 19mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Underwood
- : BC
- : 1011
- : Mahendra Singh
- : very good
- : 211
- : illustrations