Help
Add this page to your book
Show book (0 pages)
Suggest pages1795 in literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009) |
| List of years in literature (Table) |
|---|
| Related time period or subjects |
| Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more |
Contents |
[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 on 24 December (dated 1796).
[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- Jane Austen - Lady Susan (unpublished)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
- Richard Cumberland - First Love
- Marquis de Sade - Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir)
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1795 in 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
