1675 in literature
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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
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
- 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
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)
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