1795 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge gives a series of lectures on politics and religion.
- Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum.
- William Henry Ireland first displays his Shakespearean forgeries to the public. They will inspire a major controversy when published the following year.
[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- Jane Austen - Lady Susan (unpublished)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
- Thomas Spence - Spensonia
[edit] New drama
- Marquis de Sade - Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir)
[edit] Poetry
[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
