1764 in poetry

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

Events

 * The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds, the painter.

Works published in English

 * 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 Jamaica
 * 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
 * Anthologies
 * Thomas Warton, editor, The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, anthology of verse and Oxford wit

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
 * November 24 – Ulrika Widström, (died 1841), Swedish poet and translator.
 * December 2 – Hendrik Doeff, (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
 * Also:
 * Elizabeth Cobbold

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