1785 in literature

1785 in literature

Events

* January 1 - First publication of the "Daily Universal Register" (later "The Times")
* Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate
* The first steam powered cotton spinner was made by Matthew Bolton and James Watt.
* Mary Bowes is abducted by her estranged husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney.

New books

* James Boswell - "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson"
* Edmund Burke - "Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts"
* Francis Grose - "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue"
* Samuel Johnson - "Prayers and Meditations"
** - "Works"
* Immanuel Kant - "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals"
* William Paley - "The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy"
* Clara Reeve - "The Progress of Romance"
* Thomas Reid - "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man"
* John Scott - "Critical Essays on Some of the Poems"

Poetry

* János Bacsanyi - "The Valour of the Magyars"
* Samuel Egerton Brydges - "Sonnets and other Poems"
* William Combe - "The Royal Dream"
* William Cowper - "The Task"
* George Crabbe - "The News-Paper"
* William Hayley - "A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids"
* Samuel Johnson - "The Poetical Works"
* Edward Lovibond - "Poems"
* Friedrich Schiller - "Ode to Joy"
* John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - "The Lousiad"
* Robert Burns- "To A Mouse"
** - "Lyric Odes, for the Year 1785"
* Ann Yearsley - "Poems"

Fiction

* Anna Maria Bennett - "Anna"
* Elizabeth Blower - "Maria"
* Richard Graves - "Eugenius"
* Karl Philipp Moritz - "Anton Reiser" (to 1790)
* Marquis de Sade - "Les 120 journées de Sodome"

New drama

* George Colman the Younger - "Two to One"
* Richard Cumberland - "The Natural Son"
* Elizabeth Inchbald - "Appearance Is Against Them"
* John O'Keefe - "The Poor Soldier"

Births

* January 4 - Jakob Grimm
* March 7 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist
* March 21 - Henry Kirke White, poet
* May 18 - John Wilson ("Christopher North" of "Blackwood's Magazine")
* August 15 - Thomas de Quincey
* October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock

Deaths

* April 14 - William Whitehead, British poet laureate
* December 29 - Johan Herman Wessel

Awards

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