1765 in literature

1765 in literature

Events

* Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.
* Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
*Denis Diderot completes "Encyclopédie".

New books

*"The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" (anonymous, attrib. Oliver Goldsmith)
* Laurence Sterne - "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" (vol vii - viii)

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"
* William Shirley - "Electra"

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"

Non-fiction

* 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 Winckelmann)
* 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)

Births

*January 4 - Jacob Grimm, philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
*March 3 - James Mackintosh, historian (died 1832)
*March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, philosopher (died 1841)
*April 22 - James Grahame, poet (died 1811)
*November 30 - Johann Friedrich Abegg, theologian (died 1840)
*"date unknown" - Jippensha Ikku, Japanese novelist (died 1831)
*"probable" - Henry Luttrell, humorist (died 1851)

Deaths

* March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquary (born 1687)
*April 5 - Edward Young, poet, playwright, and literary theorist (born 1683)
*April 11 - Lewis Morris, poet, antiquary and lexicographer (b. 1701)
* April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath (born 1711)
*"date unknown" - David Mallet, poet and playwright (born c. 1705)


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