Joseph Knight gathers verse in praise of tobacco: odes to the meerschaum and the old briar, a poet’s pipe and a farmer’s, the cigar, the smoke-wreath and the pipe enjoyed with a good book. Light verse, parodies and sentimental lyrics by British and American poets, famous and forgotten, sit side by side in a Victorian pocket anthology.
A curiosity of Victorian bachelor culture, best enjoyed as a period piece now that tobacco has lost its romance. Download the free EPUB.