1765 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1755 . 1756 . 1757 . 1758 . 1759 . 1760 . 1761 ...; 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768; ... 1769 . 1770 . 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 . 1775 ... In literature: 1762 1763 1764 -1765- 1766 1767 1768
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

Thomas Percy's 3-volume collection, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , is 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"
Christopher Smart, translator, A Translation of the Psalms of David, Biblical verses and original poetry.^[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:

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)

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

↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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