Harte was a clergyman and university man who lived frugally on his small income. Harte received his preferments from the intercession of patrons, including his close friend Pope and the Lord Chesterfield. He published a number of poems, some in dialogue with Pope's, in addition to scholarly prose works. His friendship with Pope was occasionally ridiculed.

Harrison was a clergyman, originally Baptist but converted to the Church of England. His earliest publications were funerary sermons, but he also wrote poems and popular hymns, collected in Poems on Divine Subjects. His most notable work was a dramatic poem called Belteshazzar, or, The Heroic Jew.

Little is known about Harrison, characterized by the DNB as an "obscure figure," save for her few prose and verse publications. She published her Miscellanies in order to financially aid her ageing parent. Many of her poems are modelled on those of Elizabeth Singer Rowe.

Hardinge was a politician. A reputed classical scholar, he also wrote Latin verses throughout his life, though none were published until after his death.

From humble origins, Hardham moved to London and attended the Drury Lane Theatre often, where he was taken under Garrick's wing. Hardham opened up a tabacco shop, and his snuff became so popular that his business prospered. He wrote one unsuccessful play under the pseudonym Abel Drugger. After small bequeathments, he died with an estate of £22,289.

The son of Anthony Hammond, James Hammond was, too, a politician and poet. When he died, Lord Chesterfield published a small collection of his love poems as 'Love elegies,' which were imitations of Tibullus. Although Hammond's verse was frequently reprinted, SJ and later critics criticize his poetic skills.

Hammond attempted a career as a poet before becoming a politician, serving some stints in Parliament. Afterwards he continued to write on political matters. By 1721 his finances were in such bad shape that he voluntarily entered king's bench as a prisoner for debt and, as Hearne claims, became a ‘prostituter of his pen for bread’ (DNB).

Hamilton was a scotsman who published some lyric poems and Scottish songs in collections. He had a close correspondence with Allan Ramsay, with whom he adopted the nickname Wanton Willy. Hamilton seemed to have lived as a landed gentleman with leisure to write.

Hamilton was a staunch Jacobite who often wrote political material on the subject. He also "played a significant role...in the vernacular revival's absorption of folk forms into high Scottish literary culture" (DNB). He was praised as a good poet, and as his influential friends helped to promote his reputation, he was widely anthologized. He is best known for his ballad ‘The Braes of Yarrow’.

Hamilton was an Earl and staunch whig who received rewards for his service to the Hanoverians during the Jacobite rising of 1715. He is known for his "buffoon wit" which is demonstrated in many of his poems. Interestingly, all of his works, prose and verse, were published posthumously well after his death.