1764 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- February – The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds.
Works published
- Charles Churchill (see "Deaths", below):
- John Gilbert Cooper, Poems on Several Subjects[1]
- James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane,[1] by a British doctor in Jamaica[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
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[4]
- 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[5] (see "Works", above)
- December 15 – Robert Lloyd (born 1733), English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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
- ↑ 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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