1764 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• February – The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds.

Works published

• Charles Churchill (see "Deaths", below):
• The Candidate
• 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
• Edward Jerningham, The Nun
• Mary Latter, Liberty and Interest
• William Mason, Poems
• Benjamin Youngs Prime, The Patriotic Muse, English, Colonial America
• 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

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), Danish
• 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 satirist (see "Works", above)
• December 15 – Robert Lloyd (born 1733), English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes