1675 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1675.

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

• February 26 (bapt.) – Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737)
• 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 12 – Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet (born 1604)
• September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603)
• December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)