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.

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 (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
 * Sophonisba
 * 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 (baptized) – 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)
 * November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (born 1621)
 * December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)