Mermaid Tavern

American  

noun

1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

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Example Sentences

For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths�principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern.

From Time Magazine Archive

So from "Tales of a Mermaid Tavern":   "… and of that other Ocean   Where all men sail so blindly, and misjudge   Their friends, their charts, their storms, their stars, their           God!"

From Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)

The Mermaid Tavern, in Cheapside, was the favourite resort of the great Elizabethan dramatists and poets.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

In the Mermaid Tavern lines he had followed in fancy the poet-guests of that hostelry to the Elysian fields and asked them if they found there any finer entertainment than in their old haunt.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Sir Thurstan had given us instructions to put up at the Mermaid Tavern, near the harbor, and there we accordingly stabled our beasts and made arrangements for our own accommodation.

From In the Days of Drake by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)