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When Tennyson published Ulysses in 1842, reviewers largely ignored it. It took decades for the poem to be recognized for what it actually was: not a Greek retelling, but a first-person argument that experience accumulates and belongs to you.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" (1842)
"I am a part of all that I have met;"
Tennyson was 24, and his closest friend Arthur Henry Hallam had just died at 22 in Vienna. Out of that loss came "Ulysses" — and the line that’s outlasted all the rest is the quiet one: nothing you’ve encountered ever really leaves you. The people, the places, the books all stay, tucked into who you are. The semicolon is original; the sentence runs six more lines, but this is where it holds — open, unfinished, and along for the ride.
The Design
"I am a part / of all that / I have met;" — three lines, gold rule, attribution. Sized to be read at arm’s length. The semicolon holds the line open at this scale the same way it does on a page: a small object carrying a sentence that never fully closes.
Also on the Part of All Tee, Mug, and Journal.
About This Case
- Tough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell
- Full black back panel — sublimation edge to edge
- iPhone 11 through 17 — all models and sizes, select yours at checkout
- Raised edges protect the screen; precise cutouts for camera, buttons, and ports
- Clean with a damp cloth
- Induction charging compatible — works with most wireless devices
Care note: keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.
Who It’s For
The traveler who comes home changed. The reader who keeps every book that rearranged them. The person who picks up their phone twenty times a day and wouldn’t mind being handed, each time, the reminder that everyone they’ve met is still on board.
Carry what you’ve met. All of it still counts.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Plain English
- Lived: 1809–1892 — born in a Lincolnshire rectory, died on the Isle of Wight
- Wrote "Ulysses" at 24, in the weeks after losing his closest friend; he said the poem carried his "need of going forward"
- Poet Laureate for 42 years — the longest anyone has held the post
- Queen Victoria kept In Memoriam A.H.H. close after Prince Albert died; she said no book consoled her more
- Died at 83 with a Shakespeare volume open beside him and the window cracked to the night air
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