Pierre-Louis Ginguené, né le 25 avril 1748 à Rennes et mort le 16 novembre 1816 à Paris, est un journaliste, poète et historien de la littérature français.
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.
Pietro Metastasio, pseudonimo di Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, è stato un poeta, librettista, drammaturgo e presbitero italiano.
È considerato il riformatore del melodramma italiano.
Il conte Pietro Verri è stato un nobile, filosofo, economista, storico e scrittore italiano; considerato tra i massimi esponenti dell'illuminismo italiano, è altresì ritenuto il fondatore della scuola illuministica milanese.
Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Épinoy, dit Pigault-Lebrun, né le 8 avril 1753 à Calais et mort le 24 juillet 1835 à La Celle-Saint-Cloud, est un romancier et dramaturge français.
Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the 1896 discovery of some poems by his rival Bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of only the poet himself. His poetry, while admired by critics, still challenges the casual reader and his work is largely unread among the general public.
