{"product_id":"the-part-of-all-tennyson-mug","title":"The Part of All — Tennyson Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mug featuring Alfred, Lord Tennyson's \"I am a part of all that I have met.\" from Ulysses (1833). Literary objects by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the line Tennyson put in Ulysses's mouth — the one that reframes every place you've been as something you still carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, \"Ulysses\" (1842)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am a part of all that I have met;\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTennyson wrote this at 24, the morning after learning his best friend had died. He needed a reason to keep going and he wrote one: nothing you've met is lost. Every person, every place, every book — absorbed, accumulated, carried forward. The semicolon is original; the sentence goes on, but this is where it stops you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the mug for the person who starts the day with an awareness of what they're made of. Lefties see it. Righties see it. The accumulation doesn't pick sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full line — semicolon included, as Tennyson wrote it — runs both sides of the mug, a gold rule separating the quote from the attribution below. The line doesn't end, and the mug doesn't let it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-tee\"\u003eThe Part of All Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-journal\"\u003eThe Part of All Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Inventory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe full line — semicolon included — wraps the mug the way the past wraps a life: completely\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n15 oz black glossy ceramic — two-sided print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe; microwave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe traveler. The reader. The person who understands that the people they've known, the books they've read, the places they've been — they're not memories. They're materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStart the day knowing what you're made of.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1892, England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Victoria called him her favorite living poet and elevated him to Baron Tennyson in 1850\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Ulysses\" is a dramatic monologue — Tennyson speaking as an aging king who still refuses to stop, written at 24 when he needed to believe the same thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis friend Hallam's death also produced \u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam A.H.H.\u003c\/em\u003e (1850) — written over 17 years, one of the longest elegies in English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecited at funerals, carried by explorers, quoted by people who couldn't explain why it held them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644971028574,"sku":"8372439_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Part_of_All_Mug_Alfred_Lord_Tennyson.png?v=1776206431","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-tennyson-mug","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}