Commentaries by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

Introduction by Jack Passion

Illustrated by Mahendra Singh

Foreword by Jack Passion

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?”)

Title Poets Ranked by Beard Weight

Subtitle The Commemorative Edition

Authors Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

Commentaries by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

Introduction by Jack Passion

Illustrated by Mahendra Singh

Foreword by Jack Passion

BISAC Subject Heading HUM015000 HUMOR / Form / Anecdotes

Title First Published 05 October 2011