1765 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1765.
Events
- Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.
- Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
- Denis Diderot completes the Encyclopédie.
New books
- Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality
- The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (anonymous, attrib. Oliver Goldsmith)
- Madame Riccoboni - L'Histoire d'Ernestine
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii - viii)
New drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - operas
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Maid of the Mill
- Dorothea Biehl - Den listige Optrækkerske
- George Colman the Elder - The Comedies of Terence
- Charles Dibdin - The Shepherd's Artifice
- Elizabeth Griffith - The Platonic Wife
- Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (ed.) - The Plays of William Shakespeare
- William Shirley - Electra
Poetry
- 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
Non-fiction
- 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
- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger - Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie
- 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)
Births
- January 4 - Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
- January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
- March 3 - James Mackintosh, Scottish historian (died 1832)
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher (died 1841)
- April 22 - James Grahame, Scottish poet (died 1811)
- September 14 - Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (died 1837)
- November 30 - Johann Friedrich Abegg, German theologian (died 1840)
- date unknown - Jippensha Ikku, Japanese novelist (died 1831)
- probable - Henry Luttrell, English wit (died 1851)
Deaths
- 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 (born 1701)
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath (born 1711)
- May 1 - Franz Neumayr, controversial theological writer (born 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)
In literature
- Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year in Scotland.
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