However, he was best known in his lifetime for an Apology which depicts English theater in the early 18th century, a period in which he stole the stage with his portrayal of Sir Novelty Fashion in Love's Last Shift.  
The opening of Brighton Rock features Fred Hale using this name to distribute cards for tourists.  The title character of this man's best-known poem patiently bears a loss he can never know, and asks "what is that thing called light?"  In addition to "The Blind Boy," he wrote such plays as The Double Gallant and She Would and She Would Not.  However, he was best known in his lifetime for an Apology which depicts English theater in the early 18th century, a period in which he stole the stage with his portrayal of Sir Novelty Fashion in Love's Last Shift.  In that Apology, he claimed to have saved the poetry of England by preventing its most famous poet from sleeping with a prostitute in a brothel, a claim which enraged Alexander Pope.  FTP, name this man who became Poet Laureate in 1730 and who was frequently ridiculed by his contemporaries, remembered today as the hero of the final edition of The Dunciad.
The opening of Brighton Rock features Fred Hale using this name to distribute cards for tourists.  
Colley Cibber (or Colley Cibert)