1765 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

October 10 - Samuel Johnson's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published in London after ten years in the making.Approximate year - Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.

James Beattie:
* The Judgment of Paris
* Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill
Benjamin Church, "The Times", English, Colonial America
William Collins, The Poetical Works of William Collins, the author's first collected edition
Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
Edward Jerningham, An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, contains Macpherson's purported translations of what he presents as the ancient poems Fingal and Temora, as well as Hugh Blair's Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian 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 in 3 volumes, including first publication of the Scottish ballad "Sir Patrick Spens"
Christopher Smart, translator, A Translation of the Psalms of David, Biblical verses and original poetry:
* translation, "A Song to David"
* "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England"
Percival Stockdale, ''Churchill Defended''

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 2 - Manoah Bodman, American poet
February 11 - Elizabeth Cobbold, née Knipe, English poet
April 22 - James Grahame, Scottish poet, lawyer and clergyman
June 3 - Friederike Brun, née Münther, Danish poet
November 7 - William Taylor, English scholar, critic, polyglot, and translator of German Romantic literature
December 29 - Laurence Hynes Halloran, English poet, unordained clergyman and felon; later schoolteacher, journalist and bigamist in Australia
Mahmud Gami, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

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