1764 in poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 Notes

[edit] Events

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

[edit] Works published

• Thomas Warton, editor, The Oxford Sausage, anthology of verse and Oxford wit
• John Duncombe, The Feminead: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.^[1]

[edit] Births

• February 11 — Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (d. 1811)
• Elizabeth Cobbold
• John Thelwall

[edit] Deaths

• Charles Churchill
• Robert Dodsley
• December 15 — Robert Lloyd apparently died in Fleet Prison

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Observations on Female Literature" article in The Westminster Magazine, June 1776, pp 283-285. Retrieved March 30, 2008