- 1764 in poetry
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dn3=1790s|Events
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The Club , a London dining club, is founded bySamuel Johnson andJoshua Reynolds , the painter.Works published
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Thomas Warton , editor, "The Oxford Sausage", anthology of verse andOxford 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. [ [http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/contemps/barbauld/poems1773/criticism/duncombe.html "Observations on Female Literature"] article in "The Westminster Magazine", June 1776, pp 283-285. RetrievedMarch 30 ,2008 ]Births
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February 11 —Marie-Joseph de Chenier , French poet (d. 1811)
*Elizabeth Cobbold
*John Thelwall Deaths
* Charles Churchill
*Robert Dodsley
*December 15 — Robert Lloyd apparently died in Fleet Prisonee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry Notes
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