1764 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1764 in poetry

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Events

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

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]

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
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.

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^[6] (see "Works", above)
December 15 – Robert Lloyd (born 1733), English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison

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

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