1765 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
… 1755 ^. 1756 ^. 1757 ^. 1758 ^. 1759 ^. 1760 ^. 1761 … 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768 … 1769 ^. 1770 ^. 1771 ^. 1772 ^. 1773 ^. 1774 ^. 1775 … In poetry: 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768
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Events

Isaac Bickerstaffe
- Daphne and Amintor (opera)
- The Maid of the Mill (opera)
Dorothea Biehl - Den listige Optrækkerske
George Colman the Elder - The Comedies of Terence
Charles Dibdin - The Shepherd's Artifice
Elizabeth Griffith - The Platonic Wife
William Shirley - Electra

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

William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England
John Bunyan - Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan (posth.)
Anders Chydenius - Den nationnale winsten
Henry Fuseli - Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (transl. of Johann Joachim Winckelmann)
Oliver Goldsmith - Essays
Samuel Johnson ed., William Shakespeare - The Plays of William Shakespeare
William Kenrick - A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare
Joseph Priestley - A Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
George Alexander Stevens - The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
Tobias Smollett - A Complete History of England (final volume)

March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquary (born 1687)
April 5 - Edward Young, poet, playwright, and literary theorist (born 1683)
April 11 - Lewis Morris, poet, antiquary and lexicographer (b. 1701)
April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath (born 1711)
May 1 - Franz Neumayr, controversial theological writer (b. 1697)
December 31 - Samuel Madden, Irish author and founder of the Royal Dublin Society (born 1686)
date unknown - David Mallet, poet and playwright (born c. 1705)