Overview of the events of 1765 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1765.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- March 3 – William Stukeley, English antiquary (born 1687)
- April 5 – Edward Young, English poet, playwright and literary theorist (born 1683)
- April 11 – Lewis Morris, Welsh poet, antiquary and lexicographer (born 1701)[7]
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (born 1711)[8]
- April 23 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (born 1671 or 1672)
- May 1 – Franz Neumayr, German controversialist and theologian (born 1697)
- December 31 – Samuel Madden, Irish social and political writer (born 1686)
- Unknown date
- David Mallet, Scottish poet and playwright (born c. 1705)
- James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (born 1736)
References
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- ^ Fabian Bross; Elias Kreuzmair (24 October 2016). Basiswissen fürs Examen: Deutsche Lyrik. UTB. p. 47. ISBN 978-3-8252-4724-9.
- ^ "The story behind Goody Two Shoes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ Jones, Barry (2017). Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition. ANU Press. p. 85. ISBN 9781760461263.
- ^ Samuel J. Rogal (1991). Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the Present. Gale Research. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-8103-2943-0.
- ^ George Stillman Hillard (1861). A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors. Swan, Brewer and Tileston. p. 341.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ Galina Evgenʹevna Pavlova; Aleksandr Sergeevich Fedorov (1980). Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov: His Life and Work. Mir Publishers. p. 132.