sentences:  Poets' Corner was a name given to the Sun Inn in Long Millgate which was a meeting place for poets and other writers.The Sun Inn was reputed in 1877 to be over 250 years old; at that time it was used as a store for rope and twine.Howard Spring, a Welsh novelist born in 1889, spent a period of his life as a journalist in Manchester and set his first novel, "Shabby Tiger" (1934) there (one of the main characters is the glamorous and ambitious Rachel Rosing).