1764 in literature

1764 in literature

"See also:" 1763 in literature, other events of 1764, 1765 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* John Wilkes is expelled from the English House of Commons
* October 15 - While visiting Rome, Edward Gibbon observes a group of barefoot friars singing vespers in the ruined Temple of Jupiter, a sight which inspires him to begin work on a history that will be published as "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
* Samuel Johnson began "The Literary Club"
* The "Hartford Courant" begins publication

New books

* John Cleland - "The Surprises of Love"
* Phebe Gibbes - "The History of Lady Louisa Stroud"
* Susannah Minifie - "Family Pictures"
*"George Psalmanazar" - "Memoirs of ***, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalamanazar"
* James Ridley as "Sir Charles Morell" - "The Tales of the Genii"
* Horace Walpole - "The Castle of Otranto"

New drama

* Samuel Foote - "The Patron"
* Arthur Murphy
**"No One's Enemy But His Own"
**"What We Must All Come To"
* Kane O'Hara - "Midas"
* Frances Sheridan - "The Dupe"
* Christopher Smart - "Hannah"

Poetry

* Charles Churchill
**"The Candidate"
**"The Duellist"
**"The Farewell"
**"Gotham" (book i)
**"Independence"
**"The Times"
* John Gilbert Cooper - "Poems"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Traveller"
* James Grainger - "The Sugar-Cane"
*Johann Georg Jacobi - "Foeiische Versuche"
* Edward Jerningham - "The Nun"
* George Keate - "The Ruins of Netley Abbey"
* Mary Latter - "Liberty and Interest"
* William Mason - "Poems"
* William Williams Pantycelyn - "Bywyd a Marwolaeth Theomemphus" (Welsh language)
* Christopher Smart - "A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus"
* Thomas Warton - "The Oxford Sausage"

Non-fiction

* David Erskine Baker - "The Companion to the Play-house" (dictionary of dramatists and plays)
* Cesare Beccaria - "Dei delitti e delle pene"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "An History of England"
* Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury - "The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury"
* Immanuel Kant - "Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen)"
* Gottfried Leibniz - "Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain"
* John Newton - "An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of Newton"
* Anthony Purver - "A New and Literal Translation of all the Books of the Old and New Testament" (Bible)
* Thomas Reid - "An Inquiry into the Human Mind"
* William Shenstone - "Works"
* Voltaire - "Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary"

Births

*February 11 - Joseph Chénier, French poet (died 1811)
*April 20 - Rudolph Ackermann, publisher (died 1834)
*July 9 - Ann Radcliffe (died 1823)

Deaths

*September 23 - Robert Dodsley (born 1703)
*November 4 - Charles Churchill, poet and satirist (born 1731)
* Robert Lloyd, poet
* William Hogarth, painter, satirist, and artist
* John Philippe Rameau


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