1765 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.
Events
- January 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.[1]
- British East India Company
- October 10 – Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
- unknown date – Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
- Approximate year – Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.[2]
New books
Fiction
- Henry Brooke – The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
- Madame Riccoboni – L'Histoire d'Ernestine
- Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii–viii)
- Anonymous – The Fruit-Shop
Children
- Anonymous – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)[3]
Drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe – operas
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Maid of the Mill[4]
- Dorothea Biehl – Den listige Optrækkerske
- George Colman the Elder – The Comedies of Terence
- Ramón de la Cruz – El Prado por la noche
- Charles Dibdin – The Shepherd's Artifice
- Samuel Foote – The Commissary
- Carlo Gozzi – L'augellino bel verde
- Elizabeth Griffith – The Platonic Wife
- Michel-Jean Sedaine – Philosophe sans le savoir
- 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
- Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín– La Diana o Arte de la caza
Non-fiction
- William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (publication begins)
- John Bunyan (died 1688) – Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan
- Anders Chydenius – The National Gain (Den nationnale winsten)
- Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro – Opera omnia
- Henry Fuseli – Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
- Oliver Goldsmith – Essays
- William Kenrick – A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
- Filip Lastrić
- Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae
- Od uzame
- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger – Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
- Joseph Priestley – Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
- George Alexander Stevens – The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
- Hume's History of England; final volume)
- Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes– Tratado de la regalía de amortización
Births
- January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
- March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
- April 22 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
- September 14 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
- September 15 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (died 1805)[5]
- October 24 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)[6]
- November 30 – Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
- unknown date – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九 Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died 1831)
- Probable year of birth – Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)
Deaths
- March 3 – William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
- April 5 – Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
- April 11 – Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)[7]
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)[8]
- April 23 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
- May 1 – Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
- December 31 – Samuel Madden, Irish social and political writer (born 1686)
- Unknown date
- David Mallet, Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
- James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born 1736)
References
- ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.
- ISBN 978-3-8252-4724-9.
- ^ "The story behind Goody Two Shoes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ISBN 9781760461263.
- ISBN 978-0-8103-2943-0.
- ^ George Stillman Hillard (1861). A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors. Swan, Brewer and Tileston. p. 341.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ Galina Evgenʹevna Pavlova; Aleksandr Sergeevich Fedorov (1980). Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov: His Life and Work. Mir Publishers. p. 132.