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

• Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.
• Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.
• Denis Diderot completes Encyclopédie.

New books

• Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality
• The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (anonymous, attrib. Oliver Goldsmith)
• Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (vol vii - viii)

New drama

• 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

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
• 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, philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
• March 3 - James Mackintosh, historian (died 1832)
• March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, philosopher (died 1841)
• April 22 - James Grahame, poet (died 1811)
• November 30 - Johann Friedrich Abegg, theologian (died 1840)
• date unknown - Jippensha Ikku, Japanese novelist (died 1831)
• probable - Henry Luttrell, humorist (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)