1675 in literature
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The year 1675 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- November 11 - Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.
New books
- Joshua Barnes - Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
- Friderich Martens - Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671
- Edward Phillips - Theatrum poetarum
- A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted
- Philipp Jakob Spener - Pia Desideria
- Mary Trye - Medicatrix, or the Woman Physician
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - Les Désordres de l’amour
- John Wilkins - Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
- Miguel de Molinos
- Guía espiritual
- Breve tratado de la comunión cotidiana
- Luis de Ulloa y Pereira - Obras, prosas y versos
New drama
- John Crowne
- Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph (masque)
- Country Wit
- John Dryden - Aureng-zebe
- Thomas Duffet - Psyche Debauch'd
- Sir Francis Fane - Love in the Dark
- Nathaniel Lee - Nero, Emperor of Rome
- George Lesly - Fire and Brimstone, or the Destruction of Sodom
- Thomas Otway - Alcibiades
- Henry Nevil Payne - The Siege of Constantinople
- Thomas Shadwell - The Libertine
- William Wycherley - The Country Wife
Poetry
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)
Births
- September 2 – William Somervile, English poet (died 1742)
- October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (died 1729)
Deaths
- April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist (born 1597)
- September – Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer (born 1631)
- September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603)
- December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)