1765 in literature explained

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]
• August 12 – I'tisam-ud-Din writes the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughal Empire and the 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

See main article: article and 1765 in 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 (Swedish: 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
  • Bosnian: 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 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Marianna D’Ezio. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. 8 January 2010. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-1891-9. 46.
2. Book: Fabian Bross. Elias Kreuzmair. Basiswissen fürs Examen: Deutsche Lyrik. 24 October 2016. UTB. 978-3-8252-4724-9. 47.
3. Web site: The story behind Goody Two Shoes . National Library of Australia . 17 June 2018 . en.
4. Book: Jones . Barry . Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition . 2017 . ANU Press . 9781760461263 . 85 . en.
5. Book: Samuel J. Rogal. Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the Present. 1991. Gale Research. 978-0-8103-2943-0. 94.
6. Book: George Stillman Hillard. A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors. 1861. Swan, Brewer and Tileston. 341.
7. s-MORR-LEW-1701. Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 31 July 2019.
8. Book: Galina Evgenʹevna Pavlova. Aleksandr Sergeevich Fedorov. Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov: His Life and Work. 1980. Mir Publishers. 132.