Younger brother of Arcadius, Emperor of the East, Honorius ruled the western half of the Roman empire.

Greek poet reputed to be the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Considered during the eighteenth century to be the paradigmatic example of the inspired and primitive bardic poet, Homer became the single most influential poet of all time.

Scottish poet, dramatist, historian, and clergyman. Douglas, his best remembered drama, opened in 1756. His The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745 appeared in 1802.

First Baron Holland of Foxley and notable eighteenth-century British politician. He attended Eton College in 1775 where he became acquainted with Henry Fielding.

English chronicler whose popular The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande provided much source material for Elizabethan authors such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe.

Radical journalist, critic, novelist, translator, and playwright; Holcroft's two most important novels include Anna St. Ives (1792), a novel that reworks plot and character elements of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9) to shape a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), and The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794), which offers a more general satire on the established order. The majority of his plays were comedies, though later work includes the dark, unsuccessful drama, The Inquisitor (1798).

Indeed born in the Ettrick Forest and following the occupation of shepherd, James Hogg published several of his works under the sobriquet the "Ettrick Shepherd," a character he was to continue into his Edinburgh writing career, including his contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. His first major publication, The Mountain Bard (1807) was a collection of ballads. His most significant work was a novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1834).

English painter and engraver, Hogarth produced numerous popular satirical series, including The March to Finchley, A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode.

An English poet and clerk, sometimes known as Thomas Occleve. Some of his better works include "The Letter of Cupid," The Regement of Princes (1411-1412), "The Complaint," "The Dialogue with a Friend," "How to Die," "Prologue and a Miracle of the Blessed Virgin," and "Mother of God."

English cleric, dramatist, and poet. John Hoadly was the brother of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly and the son of Benjamin Hoadly.