1765 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.
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Events
- January 9 or 10 – Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
- October 10 – Samuel Johnson and George Steevens' edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
- The Sturm und Drang movement in German literature begins.
- Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
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)
Children
- Anonymous – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)[1]
Drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe – operas
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Maid of the Mill[2]
- 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
- 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
- Tobias Smollett – Continuation of the History of England (a supplement to Hume's History of England; final volume)
- Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes – Tratado de la regalía de amortización
Births
- January 4 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
- January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
- March 3 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)
- 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)
- 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)
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)
- 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)
In literature
- Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year in Scotland.[3]
References
- "The story behind Goody Two Shoes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- Jones, Barry (2017). Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition. ANU Press. p. 85. ISBN 9781760461263.
- "Writing Scotland – Walter Scott". BBC. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
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