1764 in poetry

• 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

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