{"product_id":"the-strangeness-poe-dark-romanticism-t-shirt","title":"The Strangeness — Poe Dark Romanticism T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere’s the honest version: Poe didn’t write this. He quoted it in “Ligeia” in 1838, credited Bacon by name, and the internet later dropped Bacon’s name and handed the line to Poe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrancis Bacon, “Of Beauty,” Essays (1625) — via Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia,” 1838\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere’s the honest version: Poe didn’t write this. He quoted it. In “Ligeia” (1838), he credited the source directly: \u003cem\u003e“There is no exquisite beauty,” says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, “without some strangeness in the proportion.”\u003c\/em\u003e Bacon’s original had the word \u003cem\u003eproportion\u003c\/em\u003e. The internet later removed it, dropped Bacon’s name, and handed the whole line to Poe. So the misattribution machine that Poe’s own narrator was standing inside eventually consumed Poe himself. The footnote belongs to Bacon. The survival of the line belongs to Poe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeft something deliberately imperfect because you knew that’s where the life is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeen called strange in a tone that was meant as a complaint\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade something beautiful precisely because it didn’t resolve the way it was supposed to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBEAUTY arrives exactly as you’d expect it to — level, composed, every letter in its place. Then STRANGENESS: each letter hits a slightly different height, the word itself refusing to settle on a single baseline. It doesn’t describe the idea. It performs it. The design does in type what Bacon argued in 1625: the thing that won’t behave is the thing you can’t stop looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore in this collection: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/edgar-allan-poe\"\u003ebrowse the full Poe collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artists, writers, and thinkers who keep one detail deliberately off. Who understand that symmetry is a ceiling and asymmetry is a door. Anyone who has ever made something more interesting by making it less perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear your strangeness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrancis Bacon \u0026amp; Edgar Allan Poe, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e (1561–1626) — English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. “Of Beauty” appears in his \u003cem\u003eEssays\u003c\/em\u003e (1625), written one year before his death. He argued that the most compelling beauty always carries an element that shouldn’t quite work — and does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/strong\u003e (1809–1849) — quoted Bacon’s line in “Ligeia” (1838) and credited him by name and title. Poe understood that the line was already doing exactly what it described. He put it at the opening of a story about a woman so strange and beautiful she defied death itself. The internet later forgot Bacon’s name. 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