1675 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1675.Events
- November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.
New books
Prose
- Joshua Barnes – Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
- John Barret – Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism
- 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
- 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
- Denis Vairasse – The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi
Drama
- John Crowne
- *Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph
- *Country Wit
- John Dryden – Aureng-zebe
- Thomas Duffet – Psyche Debauch'd
- Sir Francis Fane – Love in the Dark
- Nathaniel Lee – Nero, Emperor of Rome
- 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
Births
- February 26 – Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet
- September 2 – William Somervile, English poet
- October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric
Deaths
- April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist
- September – Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer
- September 12 – Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet
- September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie
- November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher
- December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric
