1764 in poetry
Events
- February – The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds.
Works published
- Charles Churchill (see "Deaths", below):
- The CandidateCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
- The Duelist
- The Farewell
- Gotham, Books 1, 2 and 3 published separately this year
- Independence, published anonymously
- The Times
- John Gilbert Cooper, Poems on Several Subjects
- James Grainger, The Sugar Cane, by a British doctor in Saint Kitts[https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&pg=PR17&dq=Timeline+poetry&ei=whCOScW-DpvWzAS-s_y5BQ#PPR17,M1 "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"] in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-313-31747-7}}, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- Edward Jerningham, The Nun
- Mary Latter, Liberty and Interest
- William Mason, Poems
- Benjamin Youngs Prime, The Patriotic Muse, English, Colonial AmericaLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Christopher Smart, translator, A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus
- Thomas Warton, editor, The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, anthology of verse and Oxford wit
- James Woodhouse, Poems on Sundry Occasions{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-29924;jsessionid=2AC6597469444F6641F695CF5CFC2FEB|title=Woodhouse, James|last=Christmas|first=William J.|date=3 October 2013|website=www.oxforddnb.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29924|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-02-11}}
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 11 – Marie-Joseph de Chenier (died 1811), French
- February 15 – Jens Baggesen (died 1826), DanishPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- July 27 – John Thelwall (died 1834), radical English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
- August 18 – Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev (died 1811), Galician Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet
- November 24 – Ulrika Widström (died 1841), Swedish poet and translator.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 10 – Christian Friedrich Henrici, known as "Picander" (born 1700), German
- September 23 – Robert Dodsley (born 1703), English bookseller, poet, dramatist and anthologist
- November 4 – Charles Churchill (born 1732), English poet and satiristGrun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328 (see "Works", above)
- December 15 – Robert Lloyd (born 1733), English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison
See also
{{portal|Poetry}}
Notes
{{reflist}}
{{Poetry of different cultures and languages}}
{{Lists of poets}}