1765 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Benjamin Church, "The Times", English, Colonial America
 * James Beattie:
 * The Judgment of Paris
 * Verses Occasioned by the Death of Charles Churchill, he died in November 1764 (see also Percival Stockdale's work, below)
 * William Collins, The Poetical Works of William Collins, the author's first collected edition
 * Edward Jerningham, An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England"
 * Percival Stockdale, Churchill Defended (see also James Beattie's work, above)

Other languages

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

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 2 – Manoah Bodman, American
 * Also:
 * Mahmud Gami (died 1855), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
 * William Taylor (died 1836), English scholar, critic, polyglot, and translator of German Romantic literature
 * 3 June 2 – Friederike Brun, Danish poet (died 1835)

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 3 – Jean Adams (born 1704), Scottish poet
 * Also:
 * William Dunkin
 * David Mallet (born 1705), Scottish poet and dramatist
 * Paolo Antonio Rolli (born 1687), Italian librettist and poet
 * April 5 &mdash; Edward Young (born 1681), 81, English poet