1765 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.
Events
- January 10 â Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.[1]
- August 12 â I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company
- October 10 â Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.
- unknown date â Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
- Approximate year â Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.[2]
New books
Fiction
- Henry Brooke â The Fool of Quality (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
- Madame Riccoboni â L'Histoire d'Ernestine
- Laurence Sterne â The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol viiâviii)
- Anonymous â The Fruit-Shop
Children
- Anonymous â The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (attributed to Oliver Goldsmith)[3]
Drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe â operas
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Maid of the Mill[4]
- Dorothea Biehl â Den listige Optrækkerske
- George Colman the Elder â The Comedies of Terence
- Ramón de la Cruz â El Prado por la noche
- Charles Dibdin â The Shepherd's Artifice
- Samuel Foote â The Commissary
- Carlo Gozzi â L'augellino bel verde
- Elizabeth Griffith â The Platonic Wife
- Michel-Jean Sedaine â Philosophe sans le savoir
- William Shirley â Electra
Poetry
- James Beattie
- The Judgment of Paris
- Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
- William Collins â Works
- Edward Jerningham â An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
- James Macpherson â The Works of Ossian
- Thomas Percy â Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
- Christopher Smart â A Translation of the Psalms of David
- Percival Stockdale â Churchill Defended
- Nicolás Fernandez de MoratÃn â La Diana o Arte de la caza
Non-fiction
- William Blackstone â Commentaries on the Laws of England (publication begins)
- John Bunyan (died 1688) â Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan
- Anders Chydenius â The National Gain (Den nationnale winsten)
- Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro â Opera omnia
- Henry Fuseli â Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
- Oliver Goldsmith â Essays
- William Kenrick â A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
- Filip LastriÄ
- Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae
- Od uzame
- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger â Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
- Joseph Priestley â Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
- George Alexander Stevens â The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
- Tobias Smollett â Continuation of the History of England (a supplement to Hume's History of England; final volume)
- Pedro RodrÃguez, Conde de Campomanes â Tratado de la regalÃa de amortización
Births
- January 11 â Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
- March 27 â Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
- April 22 â James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
- September 14 â Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
- September 15 â Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (died 1805)[5]
- October 24 â James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)[6]
- November 30 â Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
- unknown date â Jippensha Ikku (åè¿è ä¸ä¹ Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died 1831)
- Probable year of birth â Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)
Deaths
- March 3 â William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
- April 5 â Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
- April 11 â Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)[7]
- April 15 â Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)[8]
- April 23 â Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
- May 1 â Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
- December 31 â 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)