big reddish(?) brown beard; but was it big & bushy enough?

and, most importantly, chronologically correct?

Searched the archives and found nothing.

Lowell, I think, had said that Ginsberg influenced him to loosen his style of verse, prosody. 

Idle perhaps, but a little arresting to think of Lowell and Ginsberg as the models for Shade and Kinbote! 

(Lowell, though a tall, strapping youth, was kind of pudgy but bipolar in middle age.)

Any thoughts?