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 (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)

References