An important and influential poet, Prior was most successful with his publication of Poems on Several Occasions (1718), which included his longest poem, "Solomon on the Vanity of the World," a soliloquy on the failure to find worldly happiness.

Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley was a well known radical philosopher, theologian, historian, scientist, and reform writer. An important member of the Dissenting circle that frequented Joseph Johnson's publishing establishment, he was also a particularly close friend of Anna Letitia Barbauld. During the 1791 "church and king" riots in Birmingham, Priestley's home and laboratory were destroyed by the mob, and in 1794 he emigrated to America.

Radical Unitarian minister and close friend of Joseph Priestley, Rev. Price is best remembered for his sermon A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), which provoked Edmund Burke to write Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The Abbé Antoine-Francois Prévost authored Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1767). He also translated Samuel Richardson's major novels into French.

Friend of Hester Chapone, and later wife to Chapone's brother, Thomas Mulso.

Pratt's Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War (1780) sets a love story against the backdrop of the American Revolution.

English courtier, politician, member of Parliament, and friend of Sir Thomas Wyatt.

English landowner, Whig politician, and peer, holding the titles of Earl of Wiltshire from 1685 until 1699 and Marquess of Winchester from 1699 until 1722.

A French painter known for his heroic, mythological, and religious themes, and especially for the landscape painting that occupied much of his later years, Poussin was powerfully influential on French painters of the Romantic period.

The woman admired by the poet Dante Alighieri, mentioned in a number of his poems and the inspiration or model for his fictional guide in Paradiso (c. 1321).