1785 in literature
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[edit] Events
- January 1 - First publication of the Daily Universal Register (later The Times)
- Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate
- The first steam powered cotton spinner was made by Matthew Bolton and James Watt.
- Mary Bowes is abducted by her estranged husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney.
[edit] New books
- James Boswell - Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
- Edmund Burke - Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts
- Francis Grose - A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Samuel Johnson - Prayers and Meditations
- - Works
- Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
- William Paley - The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
- Clara Reeve - The Progress of Romance
- Thomas Reid - Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
- John Scott - Critical Essays on Some of the Poems
[edit] Poetry
- János Bacsanyi - The Valour of the Magyars
- Samuel Egerton Brydges - Sonnets and other Poems
- William Combe - The Royal Dream
- William Cowper - The Task
- George Crabbe - The News-Paper
- William Hayley - A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids
- Samuel Johnson - The Poetical Works
- Edward Lovibond - Poems
- Friedrich Schiller - Ode to Joy
- John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - The Lousiad
- Robert Burns- "To A Mouse"
- - Lyric Odes, for the Year 1785
- Ann Yearsley - Poems
[edit] Fiction
- Anna Maria Bennett - Anna
- Elizabeth Blower - Maria
- Richard Graves - Eugenius
- Karl Philipp Moritz - Anton Reiser (to 1790)
- Marquis de Sade - Les 120 journées de Sodome
[edit] New drama
- George Colman the Younger - Two to One
- Richard Cumberland - The Natural Son
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Appearance Is Against Them
- John O'Keefe - The Poor Soldier
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Jakob Grimm
- March 7 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist
- March 21 - Henry Kirke White, poet
- May 18 - John Wilson ("Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magazine)
- August 15 - Thomas de Quincey
- October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock
