1775 in poetry

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

Events

26 October - Phillis Wheatley sends a poem and letter to General George Washington in his honor. He responded to her in 1776.

Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America
Philip Freneau:
"General Gage's Soliloquy"
"General Gage's Confession"
"A Voyage to Boston"
"American Liberty"
"A Political Litany"
John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)

Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
George Crabbe, Inebriety, published anonymously
Hugh Downman, The Drama
Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M.A., Annotated letters of Thomas Gray, comments by Mason on the poems; York: A. Ward; criticism and biography
Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico
Mary Robinson, Poems by Mrs. Robinson
Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces [...] to the Works of the English Poets 1779 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

30 January – Walter Savage Landor (died 1864), English writer and poet
10 February – Charles Lamb (died 1834), English writer and poet
12 February – Charles Lloyd (died 1839), English poet, friend of Lamb
24 March – Muthuswami Dikshitar (died 1835), South Indian poet and composer
15 June – Carlo Porta (died 1821), Italian poet
9 July – Matthew Lewis ("Monk Lewis") (died 1818), English Gothic novelist and dramatist
11 July – Joseph Blanco White, born JosÃÂ© MarÃÂa Blanco Crespo (died 1841), Spanish-born theologian and poet writing in English
31 August – Agnes Bulmer (died 1836), English poet
8 September – John Leyden (died 1811), Scottish orientalist
16 December – Jane Austen (died 1817), English novelist and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

21 March – Samuel Boyce, English engraver, dramatist and poet
2 October – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, Ã¥ÂÂÃ¤Â»Â£Ã¥Â°Â¼ (born 1703), Japanese woman poet of the Edo period, prominent writer of haiku
Approximate date – Ramprasad Sen (born 1718/23), Bengali Shakta poet