1764 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- February - The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds.
Works published
- Charles Churchill :
- * 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 " in poetry" article:- February 11 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French
- February 15 - Jens Baggesen, Danish
- July 27 - John Thelwall, radical English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
- August 18 - Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, Galician Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet
- November 24 - Ulrika Widström, Swedish poet and translator.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 10 - Christian Friedrich Henrici, known as "Picander", German
- September 23 - Robert Dodsley, English bookseller, poet, dramatist and anthologist
- November 4 - Charles Churchill, English poet and satirist
- December 15 - Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison