Literature year 1765

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Literature year 1765
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Thomas Percy publishes the
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry .

Events

prose

Poetry

Ingres : The Dream of Ossian , 1813
  • The Scottish writer James Macpherson published after Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760), Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763) the works of Ossian , allegedly chants of a Celtic bard , actually composed by himself. Ossian triggers a true Celtomania, inspires artists, poets and musicians from Sturm und Drang to Romanticism and generally arouses interest in Nordic sagas, myths and songs.
  • Thomas Percy publishes the first edition of a collection of English sagas, ballads, street songs, poems and adventure stories under the title Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . It was not completed until 1867/68 after several revisions by the editors and editors who followed him.
  • Oliver Goldsmith : The Traveler .

Drama

The plays of William Shakespeare, Ed. Dr. Johnson

Periodicals

General German library
  • The General German Library is published by Friedrich Nicolai in his own publishing house. The magazine appears from 1765 to 1806, from 1793 under the title Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek (NADB).
  • The Churbaierisches Intellektivenblatt / Königlich Baierisches Intellektivenblatt , a semi-official news paper, appears intermittently from 1765 under changing titles in Munich.
The man without prejudice , title page of the first volume, with an epigram by Albrecht von Haller

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Scientific works and essays

  • The publication of the text volumes of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot , indexed by the Catholic Church , is completed by the new editor Louis de Jaucourt without royal printing permission. In addition, the third volume appears.
  • Joseph Priestley : Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life , a treatise by the English polymath on education in which he argues that instead of traditional humanistic teaching, students should be taught modern languages, mathematics, modern instead of ancient history and in to teach law and the English constitution.
Leonhard Euler

Others

Goethe 1765, oil painting by Anton Johann Kern

Born

Christiane Vulpius,
drawn by Goethe

Died

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