1795 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

[edit] Events

• Series of lectures on politics and religion - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum

[edit] New books

• Ambrosio, or the Monk - "Monk" Lewis
• Henry (novel) - Richard Cumberland
• The Maeviad - William Gifford
• La Philosophie Dans Le Boudoir by the Marquis de Sade

[edit] Births

• May 26 - Thomas Noon Talfourd
• June 13 - Thomas Arnold
• September 7 - John William Polidori
• October 31 - John Keats
• December 4 - Thomas Carlyle

[edit] Deaths

• February 11 - Carl Michael Bellman, poet
• February 22 - Alexander Gerard
• May 19 - James Boswell
• October 8 - Andrew Kippis, biographer
• October 10 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, theologian and historian

[edit] Awards