{"product_id":"the-alone-poe-dark-romanticism-journal","title":"The Alone — Poe Dark Romanticism Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoe wrote “Alone” around 1829. It wasn’t published in his lifetime — but it survived, the way lines like this always do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, “Alone” (written c. 1829, published 1875)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe design reads “lov’d” — not “loved.” That’s not a typo. It’s what Poe actually wrote in 1829, reproduced in facsimile in Scribner’s Monthly in 1875, and preserved by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore as the historical text. Modern editors modernized the spelling. We didn’t.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoe kept “Alone” to himself his entire life. Someone else kept it for him — in Lucy Holmes’s autograph album — and it wasn’t published until 26 years after he died. Some things are written not for the world but to get the thing said, at least once, to yourself. A journal is for exactly that: the writing that happens before the world sees it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staircase layout on a black hardcover — “And all I lov’d—” \/ “I lov’d” \/ “alone—” — each line stepping further in, the em dashes intact, the word “alone—” landing exactly where it always does: at the furthest point from where it started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-poe-dark-romanticism-t-shirt\"\u003eAlone Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-poe-the-raven-mug\"\u003eAlone Mug\u003c\/a\u003e. More Poe: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/dream-within-a-dream-poe-dark-romanticism-t-shirt\"\u003eDream Within a Dream Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-strangeness-poe-dark-romanticism-t-shirt\"\u003eThe Strangeness Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.5″ × 8.5″ hardcover — 120 lined pages, acid-free paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElastic band closure, ribbon bookmark, lay-flat binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe private writer — the person who journals because it’s the only place the thought lands correctly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who’s written something true that they immediately knew they’d never show anyone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Poe reader who loves things alone and has always needed a place to put that\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrite it down. Even if no one else sees it. Especially then.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1849, Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked as a magazine editor, critic, and writer — never financially stable, always brilliant at the work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis wife Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis in 1847; he survived her by less than three years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Alone” describes a way of seeing that was, from childhood, his and no one else’s — a perception he never wrote his way out of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe was around 20 when he wrote it; it wasn’t published until he’d been dead 26 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644960280670,"sku":"6735796_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Alone_Journal_Edgar_Allan_Poe.png?v=1776205947","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-poe-dark-romanticism-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}