{"product_id":"the-alone-poe-the-raven-mug","title":"The Alone — Poe The Raven Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoe wrote “Alone” around 1829, in a poem he never tried to publish. Every morning it asks the same question.\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 wrote this at around 20 and kept it to himself for the rest of his life. It’s the most nakedly personal thing he ever wrote — a description of a way of experiencing the world that couldn’t be shared because it was, at its core, solitary. This is the mug for the morning when you feel that way: not sad, not lonely, just aware that some things arrive in you on their own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree lines in a staircase — “And all I lov’d—” \/ “I lov’d” \/ “alone—” — each stepping further right, “alone—” arriving at the furthest indent, exactly where it belongs. Both sides carry it the same way: toward the word at the end. The aloneness doesn’t pick sides.\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-dark-romanticism-journal\"\u003eAlone Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Alone\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz — substantial, not a collection piece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy black ceramic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided print — the quote wraps the mug, so it faces you whether you reach left or right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrowave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who needs ten minutes alone before the day starts. The Poe reader who has carried this line for years. The one who knows the specific quality of loving something alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTake the morning. Take it on your own terms.\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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvented detective fiction with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) — decades before Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore celebrated in France than in America during his own lifetime — Baudelaire translated him; Dostoevsky and Borges claimed him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Raven\u003c\/em\u003e (1845) made him famous and earned him almost nothing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Alone” was kept in someone else’s album for 26 years before the world saw it — the most intimate thing he ever wrote, hidden the longest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644958773342,"sku":"5821139_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Alone_Mug_Edgar_Allan_Poe.png?v=1776205648","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-poe-the-raven-mug","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}