Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative EditionPoets 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?”) |
Contents
Supplement to Poets Ranked by Beard Weight | 27 |
Origins of Modern Beard Science | 51 |
Pioneers of Pogonology | 94 |
Monuments and Memorials | 107 |
A Glimpse at Underwoods Laboratory | 130 |
Fundamentals of Beard Husbandry | 137 |
A Wholesome Hobby | 146 |
Outdoor Amusements and Domestic Diversions | 153 |
Beard Adages | 160 |
Beard Aphorisms | 166 |
Primer of Pogonomancy | 172 |
The Imperial BeardWearers Ball | 180 |
Universal Beard Exposition of 1911 | 186 |
Glossary | 198 |
Epilog | 207 |
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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition Upton Uxbridge Underwood Limited preview - 2011 |
Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition Upton Uxbridge Underwood No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
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