1795 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge gives a series of lectures on politics and religion.
• Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum.

[edit] New books

• Jane Austen - Lady Susan (unpublished)
• Richard Cumberland - Henry
• William Gifford - The Maeviad
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre)
• Marquis de Sade - Aline and Valcour,

[edit] New drama

• Marquis de Sade - Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir)

[edit] Poetry

• William Blake - The Book of Ahania

[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