Editing 1764 in literature

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This article is a summary of literary events and publications during '''1764'''.

==Events==
*[[January 19]] – [[John Wilkes]] is expelled from the [[British House of Commons]] for [[sedition|seditious]] [[libel]] in an article criticizing [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] in ''[[The North Briton]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Hywel |title=Cassell's Chronology of World History |url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/322 |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2005 |isbn=0-304-35730-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/322 322–323] }}</ref>
*February – [[Samuel Johnson]] co-founds [[The Club (dining club)|The Club]], a literary dining club in London.
*[[June 21]] – The ''[[Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph|Quebec Gazette]]'' newspaper begins publication; its successor survives.
*[[October 15]] – While visiting [[Rome]], [[Edward Gibbon]] conceives the idea for ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'' "as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter".<ref>{{Cite book |editor=Murray, John |title=The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=John Murray |year=1897 |page=302}}</ref> Gibbon is at the [[Franciscan]] Basilica of [[Santa Maria in Aracoeli]] on the [[Capitoline Hill]], actually the site of the Temple of Juno.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Gibbon in Rome 1764 |last=Saunders |first=J. J. |journal=[[History Today]] |year=1964 |volume=14 |issue=9 |pages=608–15 |url=http://www.historytoday.com/jj-saunders/gibbon-rome-1764 |accessdate=2013-12-12}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] – The ''[[Hartford Courant]]'' newspaper is founded in [[Connecticut]].
*[[December 24]] – [[Horace Walpole]]'s ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]'' ("A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto"), the first [[Gothic novel]], is published by his [[Strawberry Hill Press]] in England.
*''unknown dates'' – The French scholar [[Jean-Jacques Barthélemy]] deciphers the [[Phoenician language]] using inscriptions on the [[Cippi of Melqart]] from [[Malta]].
*[[Suzanne Curchod|Mme. Necker]] and [[Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse|Mlle. de Lespinasse]] establish [[literary salon]]s in Paris

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[John Cleland]] – ''The Surprises of Love''<ref>{{cite book|author=Antonia Forster|title=Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYbzVL9pEpQC&pg=PA64|year=1990|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1406-5|pages=64}}</ref>
*[[Phebe Gibbes]]
**''The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honorable Miss Caroline Stretton''<ref>{{cite book|author=Antonia Forster|title=Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYbzVL9pEpQC&pg=PA64|year=1990|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1406-5|pages=121}}</ref>
**''The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis Clive''<ref>{{cite book|title=Women & Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWgqAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Transaction Periodicals Consortium|page=38}}</ref>
*[[Susannah Minifie]] – ''Family Pictures''
*[[George Psalmanazar]] (pseudonym) – ''Memoirs of ***, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalamanazar''
*[[James Ridley]] (as Sir Charles Morell) – ''[[The Tales of the Genii]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Charles Morell|title=The Tales of the Genii: Or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tUE1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT2|year=1766|publisher=J. Wilkie|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[Horace Walpole]] – ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]''

===Drama===
*[[Samuel Foote]] – ''The Patron''
*[[Antoine-Marin Lemierre]] – ''Idomne''
*[[Arthur Murphy (writer)|Arthur Murphy]]
**''No One's Enemy But His Own''
**''What We Must All Come To''
*[[Kane O'Hara]] – ''Midas''
*[[Christopher Smart]] – ''Hannah''
*[[Ramón de la Cruz]] – ''El petimetre''

===Poetry===
{{main article|1764 in poetry}}
*[[Charles Churchill (satirist)|Charles Churchill]]
**''The Candidate''
**''The Duellist''
**''The Farewell''
**''Gotham'' (book i)
**''Independence''
**''The Times''
*[[John Gilbert Cooper]] – ''Poems''
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] – ''[[The Traveller (poem)|The Traveller]]''
*[[James Grainger]] – ''The Sugar-Cane''
*[[Johann Georg Jacobi]] – ''Poetische Versuche''
*[[Edward Jerningham]] – ''The Nun''<ref>[http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=38579 "ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION"]. Accessed 2 January 2013</ref>
*[[George Keate]] – ''The Ruins of Netley Abbey''
*[[Mary Latter]] – ''Liberty and Interest: a Burlesque Poem on the Present Times''<ref>[http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=lattma Orlando Project – Mary Latter]. Accessed 2 January 2013</ref>
*[[William Mason (poet)|William Mason]] – ''Poems''
*[[William Williams Pantycelyn]] – ''Bywyd a Marwolaeth Theomemphus'' (in Welsh)
*[[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)
*[[John Barrow (historian)|John Barrow]] – ''Dictionary of Arts and Sciences''
*[[Cesare Beccaria]] (anonymous) – ''[[On Crimes and Punishments]]'' (Dei delitti e delle pene)
*[[Charles Bonnet]] – ''Contemplation de la nature''
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] – ''An History of England''
*[[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury|Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury]] (posthumously) – ''The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury'' (concluded 1624)
*[[Immanuel Kant]] – ''[[Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime]] (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen)''
*[[Gottfried Leibniz]] (posthumous) – ''[[New Essays on Human Understanding]] (Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain)'' (completed 1704)
*[[John Newton]] (anonymous) – ''An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable And Interesting Particulars in the Life of ------ Communicated, in a Series of Letters, to the Reverend T. Haweiss'' (autobiography)
*[[Francisco Mariano Nipho]] – ''La nación española defendida de los insultos del Pensador y sus secuaces''
*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 on the Principles of Common Sense''
*[[William Shenstone]] (posthumous) – ''Works''
*[[Voltaire]]
**''[[Dictionnaire philosophique]] (Philosophical Dictionary)''
**''[[Commentaires sur Corneille]]''
*[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]] – ''Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums'' (History of Ancient Art)

==Births==
*[[January 23]] – [[Morris Birkbeck]], American writer and social reformer (died [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[February 11]] – [[Joseph Chénier]], French poet (died [[1811 in literature|1811]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Aldrich|author2=Martyn Lyons|title=The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgFoAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Department of Economic History, University of Sydney|isbn=978-1-86487-026-8|page=28}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[Catharina Heybeek]], Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (died [[1810 in literature|1810]]) 
*[[April 29]] – [[Ann Hatton]] (Ann of Swansea), English novelist (died [[1838 in literature|1838]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Philip H. Highfill|author2=Kalman A. Burnim|author3=Edward A. Langhans|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNed_aEZXdMC&pg=PA171|year=1982|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-0918-4|pages=171}}</ref>
*[[May 7]] – [[Therese Huber]], German writer and scholar (died [[1829 in literature|1829]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Katharina M. Wilson|author2=M. Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA573|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=573}}</ref> 
*[[June 19]] – [[Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet|John Barrow]], English writer, geographer and linguist (died [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ulverstoncouncil.org.uk/education/john-barrow/ |title=Ulverston Borough Council biography. Retrieved 28 June 2020. |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629193854/http://www.ulverstoncouncil.org.uk/education/john-barrow |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[June 23]] – [[Gabriel-Marie Legouvé]], French poet and dramatist (died [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[July 4]] – [[Prokop František Šedivý]], Czech playwright, actor, and translator (died c. 1810) 
*[[July 9]] – [[Ann Radcliffe]], English Gothic novelist (died [[1823 in literature|1823]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Miles|title=Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VeXoAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA21|year=1995|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3829-7|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[August 18]] &ndash; [[Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev]], [[Galician Jews|Galician Jewish]] [[modern Hebrew]] philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (died [[1811 in literature|1811]])
*[[October 19]] – [[Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy]], French dramatist (died [[1846 in literature|1846]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Frederick Reynolds (writer)|Frederick Reynolds]], English dramatist (died [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[December 3]] – [[Mary Lamb]], English miscellanist and co-author with brother [[Charles Lamb]] (died [[1847 in literature|1847]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Burrows Gilchrist|title=Mary Lamb|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlYBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2|year=1883|publisher=Roberts Bros.|isbn=978-0-932062-63-5|pages=2}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – [[Sophie de Condorcet]], French salonist and feminist (d. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Hyland|author2=Olga Gomez|author3=Francesca Greensides|title=The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfoobriCsAUC&pg=PA27|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-20448-4|pages=27}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[April 17]] – [[Johann Mattheson]], German writer, lexicographer and musician (born [[1681 in literature|1681]])
*[[June 18]] – [[Christmas Samuel]], Welsh-language writer and Independent minister (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*[[July 30]] – [[Philipp Hafner]], Austrian writer of farce (born [[1735 in literature|1735]])
*[[September 23]] – [[Robert Dodsley]], English miscellanist and bookseller (born [[1703 in literature|1703]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Dodsley|title=The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SKgkoYll0C&pg=PA20|date=22 January 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52208-3|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[October 23]] – [[Pierre-Charles Roy]], French poet and librettist (born [[1683 in literature|1683]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Agustín de Montiano y Luyando]], Spanish dramatist (born [[1697 in literature|1697]])
*[[November 4]] – [[Charles Churchill (satirist)|Charles Churchill]], English poet and satirist (born 1731)
*[[December 15]] – [[Robert Lloyd (poet)|Robert Lloyd]], English poet and satirist (born [[1733 in literature|1733]])
*[[December 18]] – [[Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao]], Spanish Benedictine theologian (born [[1687 in literature|1687]])

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