Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February – The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds.
Charles Churchill (see "Deaths", below):
The Candidate
The Duelist
The Farewell
Gotham, Books 1, 2 and 3 published separately this year
Independence, published anonymously
The Times
John Gilbert Cooper, Poems on Several Subjects
James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane, by a British doctor in Jamaica
Edward Jerningham, The Nun
Mary Latter, Liberty and Interest
William Mason, Poems
Benjamin Youngs Prime, The Patriotic Muse, English, Colonial America
Christopher Smart, translator, A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus
Thomas Warton, editor, The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, anthology of verse and Oxford wit
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
July 27 – John Thelwall (died 1834), radical English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
November 24 – Ulrika Widström (died 1841), Swedish poet and translator.
December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
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 1731), English (see "Works", above)
December 15 – Robert Lloyd (born 1733), English poet and satirist, died in Fleet Prison
