Editing 1765 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in '''1765'''.

==Events==
*[[January 10]] – [[Arthur Murphy (writer)|Arthur Murphy]] introduces [[Hester Thrale]] and her husband to [[Samuel Johnson]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Marianna D’Ezio|title=Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEIaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|date=8 January 2010|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-1891-9|pages=46}}</ref>
*[[August 12]] – [[I'tisam-ud-Din]] writes the ''[[Treaty of Allahabad]]'' between the [[Mughal Empire]] and the [[British East India Company]]
*[[October 10]] – [[Samuel Johnson]]'s edition of ''[[The Plays of William Shakespeare]]'' is published in London after ten years in the making.
*''unknown date'' – [[Denis Diderot]] completes the ''[[Encyclopédie]]''.
*''Approximate year'' – Beginning of the [[Sturm und Drang]] movement in [[German literature]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Fabian Bross|author2=Elias Kreuzmair|title=Basiswissen fürs Examen: Deutsche Lyrik|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DD9oDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|date=24 October 2016|publisher=UTB|isbn=978-3-8252-4724-9|pages=47}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Henry Brooke (writer)|Henry Brooke]] – ''[[The Fool of Quality]]'' (volume one; the fifth and last appeared in 1770)
*[[Marie Jeanne Riccoboni|Madame Riccoboni]] – ''L'Histoire d'Ernestine''
*[[Laurence Sterne]] – ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (vol vii–viii)
*Anonymous – ''[[The Fruit-Shop]]''

===Children===
*Anonymous – ''[[The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes]]'' (attributed to [[Oliver Goldsmith]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The story behind Goody Two Shoes |url=https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2016/12/07/the-story-behind-goody-two-shoes |website=National Library of Australia |accessdate=17 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

===Drama===
*[[Isaac Bickerstaffe]] – operas
**''Daphne and Amintor''
**''The Maid of the Mill''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Barry |title=Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition |date=2017 |publisher=ANU Press |isbn=9781760461263 |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIopDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Dorothea Biehl]] – ''Den listige Optrækkerske''
*[[George Colman the Elder]] – ''The Comedies of Terence''
*[[Ramón de la Cruz]] – ''El Prado por la noche''
*[[Charles Dibdin]] – ''The Shepherd's Artifice''
*[[Samuel Foote]] – ''[[The Commissary (play)|The Commissary]]''
*[[Carlo Gozzi]] – ''[[The Green Bird|L'augellino bel verde]]''
*[[Elizabeth Griffith]] – ''The Platonic Wife''
*[[Michel-Jean Sedaine]] – ''Philosophe sans le savoir''
*[[William Shirley]] – ''Electra''

===Poetry===
{{main article|1765 in poetry}}
*[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]]
**''The Judgment of Paris''
**''Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill''
*[[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]] – ''Works''
*[[Edward Jerningham]] – ''An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey''
*[[James Macpherson]] – ''The Works of [[Ossian]]''
*[[Thomas Percy (Bishop of Dromore)|Thomas Percy]] – ''[[Reliques of Ancient English Poetry]]''
*[[Christopher Smart]] – ''A Translation of the Psalms of David''
*[[Percival Stockdale]] – ''Churchill Defended''
*[[Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín]] – ''La Diana o Arte de la caza''

===Non-fiction===
*[[William Blackstone]] – ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'' (publication begins)
*[[John Bunyan]] (died 1688) – ''Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan''
*[[Anders Chydenius]] – ''[[The National Gain]]'' (''{{lang|sv|Den nationnale winsten}}'')
*[[Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro]] – ''Opera omnia''
*[[Henry Fuseli]] – ''Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks'' (translation of [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]])
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] – ''Essays''
*[[William Kenrick (writer)|William Kenrick]] – ''A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare''
*[[Filip Lastrić]]
**''Epitome vetustatum Bosnensis provinciae''
**''{{lang|bs|Od uzame}}''
*[[Friedrich Christoph Oetinger]] – ''Swedenborg und anderer Irrdische und himmlische Philosophie''
*[[Joseph Priestley]] – ''Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life''
*[[George Alexander Stevens]] – ''The Celebrated Lecture on Heads''
*[[Tobias Smollett]] – ''Continuation of the History of England'' (a supplement to [[The History of England (Hume)|Hume's ''History of England'']]; final volume)
*[[Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes]] – ''Tratado de la regalía de amortización''

==Births==
*[[January 11]] – [[Antoine Alexandre Barbier]], French librarian (died [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[March 27]] – [[Franz Xaver von Baader]], German philosopher (died [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[April 22]] – [[James Grahame]], Scottish poet (died [[1811 in literature|1811]])
*[[September 14]] – [[Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann]], German bookseller (died [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage]], Portuguese poet (died [[1805 in literature|1805]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel J. Rogal|title=Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pgjAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-2943-0|page=94}}</ref>
*[[October 24]] – [[James Mackintosh]], Scottish historian (died [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Stillman Hillard|title=A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eMAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA341|year=1861|publisher=Swan, Brewer and Tileston|pages=341}}</ref>
*[[November 30]] – [[Johann Friedrich Abegg]], German theologian (died [[1840 in literature|1840]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Jippensha Ikku]] (十返舎 一九 Shigeta Sadakazu), Japanese novelist (died [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*''Probable year of birth'' – [[Henry Luttrell (wit)|Henry Luttrell]], English wit (died [[1851 in literature|1851]])

==Deaths==
*[[March 3]] – [[William Stukeley]], English antiquary (born [[1687 in literature|1687]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Edward Young]], English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born [[1683 in literature|1683]])
*[[April 11]] – [[Lewis Morris (1701–1765)|Lewis Morris]], Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born [[1701 in literature|1701]])<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-MORR-LEW-1701|title=Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref>
*[[April 15]] – [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian polymath (born [[1711 in literature|1711]])<ref name="PavlovaFedorov1980">{{cite book|author1=Galina Evgenʹevna Pavlova|author2=Aleksandr Sergeevich Fedorov|title=Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov: His Life and Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMMlAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Mir Publishers|page=132}}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – [[Sarah Dixon]], English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
*[[May 1]] – [[Franz Neumayr]], German controversialist and theologian (born [[1697 in literature|1697]])
*[[December 31]] – [[Samuel Madden (author)|Samuel Madden]], Irish social and political writer (born [[1686 in literature|1686]])
*''Unknown date''
**[[David Mallet (writer)|David Mallet]], Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
**[[James Ridley]] (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born [[1736 in literature|1736]])

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