Lines On The Mermaid Tavern

Lines on The Mermaid Tavern

by John Keats

“Lines on the Mermaid Tavern” is a poem written by John Keats in 1818. It is a sonnet that expresses the speaker’s longing to be transported back in time to the Mermaid Tavern, a famous London pub where literary figures such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Fletcher were known to gather. The speaker imagines the conversations and camaraderie that must have taken place there, and he expresses his desire to join in on the revelry.

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John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tubercul...

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