1769 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, The Siege of Jerusalem
 * Thomas Chatterton:
 * Elinoure and Juga, the first of his "Rowley Poems," published in Town and Country Magazine in May
 * Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769
 * Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs
 * John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously
 * Clara Reeve, Original Poems on several Occasions
 * Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, published anonymously

Other languages

 * Jacques Delille, verse translation of Virgil's Georgics from the original Latin into French; the translation led to the author's award of the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège de France and membership in the Académie Française in 1774
 * Basílio da Gama, O Uraguai, an epic Brazilian poem
 * Jean-François, marquis de Saint-Lambert, Saisons, modeled on Thomson's Seasons
 * Martin Wieland, Musarion, Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Ernst Moritz Arndt (died 1860), German patriotic author and poet
 * Ann Batten Cristall
 * John Hookham Frere (died 1846), English diplomat, poet and author
 * George Howe (died 1821), Australian
 * Amelia Opie (died 1853), English poet, author

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * November 27 – Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵 (born 1697), Japanese Edo period poet and philologist
 * December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (born 1715), German poet
 * Also:
 * William Falconer (born 1732), Scottish poet, died from drowning
 * Sneyd Davies (born 1709), English
 * James Merrick (born 1720), English poet and scholar