1765 in literature
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See also: 1764 in literature, other events of 1765, 1766 in literature, list of years in literature.
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| … 1755 . 1756 . 1757 . 1758 . 1759 . 1760 . 1761 … 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768 … 1769 . 1770 . 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 . 1775 … In poetry: 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768 |
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[edit] Events
- The Stamp Act was passed, accelerating discontent in England's North American colonies.
- Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.
- Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
- Denis Diderot completes Encyclopédie.
[edit] New books
- William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England
- John Bunyan - Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan (posth.)
- Anders Chydenius - Den nationnale winsten
- Henry Fuseli - Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (transl. of Johann Joachim Winckelman)
- Oliver Goldsmith - Essays
- Samuel Johnson ed., William Shakespeare - The Plays of William Shakespeare
- William Kenrick - A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
- Joseph Priestley - A Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
- George Alexander Stevens - The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
- Tobias Smollett - A Complete History of England (final volume)
[edit] Poetry
- James Beattie -The Judgment of Paris
- - Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
- William Collins - Works
- Edward Jerningham - An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
- James Macpherson - The Works of Ossian
- Thomas Percy - Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
- Christopher Smart - A Translation of the Psalms of David
- Percival Stockdale - Churchill Defended
[edit] Fiction
- Anonymous - The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attrib. Oliver Goldsmith)
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii - viii)
[edit] New drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - Daphne and Amintor (opera)
- - The Maid of the Mill (opera)
- George Colman the Elder - The Comedies of Terence
- Charles Dibdin - The Shepherd's Artifice
- Elizabeth Griffith - The Platonic Wife
- Thomas Hull - Pharmaces (opera)
- William Shirley - Electra
[edit] Births
- March 3 - James Mackintosh (died 1832)
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader (died 1841)
- April 22 - James Grahame (died 1811)
- Henry Luttrell
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - William Stukeley (born 1687)
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov (born 1711)
- David Mallet, poet and playwright
- Edward Young, poet, playwright, and literary theorist
