1765 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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:
- translation, "A Song to David" (a translation first published 1763)^[2]
- "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England"^[2]
Percival Stockdale, Churchill Defended (see also James Beattie's work, above)^[2]

Charles Batteux, Cours de belles lettres (included in Principes de la littérature 1774); criticism; France

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 2 – Manoah Bodman (died 1850), American poet
February 11 – Elizabeth Cobbold, née Knipe (died 1824), English poet
April 22 – James Grahame (died 1811), Scottish poet, lawyer and clergyman
June 3 – Friederike Brun, née Münther (died 1835), Danish poet
November 7 – William Taylor (died 1836), English scholar, critic, polyglot, and translator of German Romantic literature
December 29 – Laurence Hynes Halloran (died 1831), English poet, unordained clergyman and felon; later schoolteacher, journalist and bigamist in Australia
Mahmud Gami (died 1855), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

↑ Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature 1602-1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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