abstract:Nicholas Rowe (; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.
Yet Addison's campaign was not enough to expunge the pun from the capital's coffee-houses, where the poet NicholasRowe once fell victim to a pun-fuelled prank, described in The Percy Anecdotes.