Bonus: McSorley’s is the Subject of an E.E. Cummings Poem

E.E. Cummings wrote the fantastic poem “i was sitting in mcsorley’s,” which paints a picture of the East Village institution where he frequently drank. Some choice lines are “outside it was New York and beautifully snowing. Inside snug and evil” and “I was sitting in the din thinking drinking the ale, which never lets you grow old.”

E.E. Cummings wasn’t the only poet who loved the pub. Other writers who drank at McSorley’s include Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, and American journalist and author, Hunter S. Thompson, both notorious drinkers.

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