Admittedly, literary greats studied here, too: Byron, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Nabokov, just for starters.

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Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce among many other literary greats have employed the form.

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If the walls could talk in Dublin's oldest watering holes they would no doubt have some colourful stories to reveal about the city's literary greats trying to release the muse over a few pints.

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