1795 in literature

See also: 1794 in literature, other events of 1795, 1796 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Series of lectures on politics and religion – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum

New books

• Ambrosio, or the Monk – "Monk" Lewis
• Henry (novel) – Richard Cumberland
• The Maeviad – William Gifford
• La Philosophie Dans Le Boudoir by the Marquis de Sade

Births

• May 26 – Thomas Noon Talfourd
• June 13 – Thomas Arnold
• September 7 – John William Polidori
• October 31 – John Keats
• December 4 – Thomas Carlyle

Deaths

• February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, poet
• February 22 – Alexander Gerard
• May 19 – James Boswell
• October 8 – Andrew Kippis, biographer

Awards