1675 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
... 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 ... 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 ... 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 ...
In literature 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678
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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

Works published

English

• Charles Cotton:
  • Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously^[1]
  • The Scoffer Scoft, the second part of the above Burlesque [...]^[1]
• Thomas Hobbes, translator, The Odyssey of Homer (the author's translation of the Iliad was published in 1676)^[1]
• Richard Leigh, Poems, upon Several Occasions, and, to Several Persons^[1]
• Edward Phillips, editorTheatrum Poetarum; or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets of all Ages^[1]

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^[2]

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

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Paul, Harry Gilbert, John Dennis: his life and criticism, page 159, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010