1675 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Guru Gobind Singh becomes guru at the age of nine years

English

 * Charles Cotton:
 * Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously
 * The Scoffer Scoft, the second part of the above Burlesque [...]
 * Thomas Hobbes, translator, The Odyssey of Homer (the author's translation of the Iliad was published in 1676)
 * Richard Leigh, Poems, upon Several Occasions, and, to Several Persons
 * Edward Phillips, editorTheatrum Poetarum; or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets of all Ages

Other

 * René Le Bossu, Traité du Poeme Epique, a systematic description of epic poetry, based on Aristotle; the book was very favorably received; criticism, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February – Ignjat Đurđević (died 1737), Croatian poet and translator
 * February 26 (bapt.) – Abel Evans (died 1737), English clergyman, academic and poet
 * August 31 – Elizabeth Thomas (died 1731), English poet
 * September 2 – William Somervile (died 1742), English poet
 * October 17 (bapt.) – Samuel Cobb (died 1716), English poet
 * Also:
 * Cille Gad (died 1711), Norwegian female poet and academic
 * Jamie Macpherson (died 1700), Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament
 * Vakhtang VI of Kartli (died 1737), Kartli statesman, legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 24 – Pierre Perrin (born 1620), French poet and libretto composer
 * September 12 – Girolamo Graziani (born 1604), Italian poet
 * November 14 – Johannes Khuen (born 1606), Bavarian German priest, poet and composer
 * Also – Emanuele Tesauro (born 1592), Italian rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet and historian
 * Approximate date – William Mercer (born 1605), Scottish poet and army officer