1795 in literature

1795 in literature

Events

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge gives a series of lectures on politics and religion.
*Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum.
*William Henry Ireland first displays his Shakespearean forgeries to the public. They will inspire a major controversy when published the following year.

New books

*Jane Austen - "Lady Susan" (unpublished)
*Richard Cumberland - "Henry"
*William Gifford - "The Maeviad"
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre)"
*Marquis de Sade - "Aline and Valcour
*Thomas Spence - "Spensonia"

New drama

*Marquis de Sade - "Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir)"

Poetry

*William Blake - "The Book of Ahania"

Births

* May 26 - Thomas Noon Talfourd
* June 13 - Thomas Arnold
* September 7 - John William Polidori
* October 31 - John Keats
* December 4 - Thomas Carlyle

Deaths

* February 11 - Carl Michael Bellman, poet
* February 22 - Alexander Gerard
* May 19 - James Boswell
* October 8 - Andrew Kippis, biographer
* October 10 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, theologian and historian

Awards

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