1764 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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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[1]
  • The Duelist[1]
  • The Farewell[1]
  • Gotham, Books 1, 2 and 3 published separately this year[1]
  • Independence, published anonymously[1]
  • The Times[1]
• John Gilbert Cooper, Poems on Several Subjects[1]
• James Grainger, The Sugar Cane,[1] by a British doctor in Saint Kitts[2]
• Edward Jerningham, The Nun[1]
• Mary Latter, Liberty and Interest[1]
• William Mason, Poems[1]
• Benjamin Youngs Prime, The Patriotic Muse, English, Colonial America[3]
• Christopher Smart, translator, A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus[1]
• Thomas Warton, editor, The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces,[1] anthology of verse and Oxford wit
• James Woodhouse, Poems on Sundry Occasions[4]

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[5]
• July 27 – John Thelwall (died 1834), radical English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
• November 24 – Ulrika Widström (died 1841), Swedish poet and translator.
• December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese

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 1731), English[6] (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

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. "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
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Christmas, William J. (3 October 2013). "Woodhouse, James". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29924. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
6. Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328