"Poets Ranked by Beard Weight"

The arrival of this indispensable book is a cause for rejoicing among those who closely follow the competitive world of bearded poets.



Would you like to know more? Naturlich!




"Everything that can be known about beards and much
that can't." --The London Weekly Gazette




"Underwood's revolutionary syntheses lift the science
of pogonology to hitherto undreamed of heights!" --Beards Illustrated

See how Whitman's beard stacks up against Longfellow's,
Homer's, and Tennyson's! Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic of Edwardian
esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by subscription to the informed
man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for reading bins and cocktail
tables of parlor cars, and libraries and smoking lounges of gentlemen's clubs . . . 

Of particular interest is Underwood's most significant
invention-a grading system, known as the "Underwood Pogonometric
Index," which calculates what he called "poetic gravity," or
beard weight. Also included are the fundamentals of beard flirtation and a
complete history of beard-based folklore and controversies.