1765 in poetry
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[edit] Works published
- Benjamin Church, "The Times", English, Colonial America[1]
- James Beattie:
- The Judgment of Paris[2]
- Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill, he died in November 1764 (see also Percival Stockdale's work, below)[2]
- William Collins, The Poetical Works of William Collins, the author's first collected edition[2]
- Edward Jerningham, An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey[2]
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, contains Macpherson's purported translations (actually much edited, loosely translated fragments of Gaelic poetry, which were supplemented by his own versifying) of what he presented as the ancient poems Fingal (first published 1762) and Temora (first published 1763), as well as Hugh Blair's Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian (also first published 1763)[2]
- Mother Goose's Melody, including "Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top" and "Ding, dong, bell"
- Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, anthology[2] in 3 volumes
- Christopher Smart, translator, A Translation of the Psalms of David, Biblical verses and original poetry:
- Percival Stockdale, Churchill Defended (see also James Beattie's work, above)[2]
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[edit] See also
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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