1675 in literature
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The year 1675 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

  • November 11 - Gottfried Leibniz
    Gottfried Leibniz
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....

    's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.

New books

  • Joshua Barnes
    Joshua Barnes
    Joshua Barnes , was an English scholar.He was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor.Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.One of his first...

     - Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
  • Friderich Martens
    Friderich Martens
    Friderich Martens, was a German physician and naturalist who conducted the first scientific observations of the nature, animal life and climate of Svalbard...

     - Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671
  • Edward Phillips
    Edward Phillips
    Edward Phillips , was an English author.-Life:He was the son of Edward Phillips of the crown office in chancery, and his wife Anne, only sister of John Milton, the poet. Edward Phillips the younger was born in the Strand, London. His father died in 1631, and Anne eventually married her husband's...

     - Theatrum poetarum
  • A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley
    Abraham Cowley
    Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.-Early life and career:...

     or Peter Hausted
    Peter Hausted
    Peter Hausted , Doctor of Divinity, was a "playwright, poet, preacher" in early 17th-century England. In his own time, he was notorious as a flamboyant preacher against Puritan and sectarian dissent in the Church of England, and was remembered for the riot that accompanied the 1632 debut of his...

  • Mary Trye - Medicatrix, or the Woman Physician
  • Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
    Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
    Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, born Marie-Catherine Desjardins and generally referred to as Madame de Villedieu was a French writer of plays, novels and short fiction...

     - Les Désordres de l’amour
  • John Wilkins
    John Wilkins
    John Wilkins FRS was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as a founder of the Invisible College and one of the founders of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death....

     - Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion

New drama

  • John Crowne
    John Crowne
    John Crowne was a British dramatist and a native of Nova Scotia.His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the earl of Arundel on a diplomatic mission to Vienna in 1637, and wrote an account of his journey...

     - Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph (masque
    Masque
    The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in 16th and early 17th century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio...

    )
    • - Country Wit
  • John Dryden
    John Dryden
    John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...

     - Aureng-zebe
    Aureng-zebe
    Aureng-zebe is a Restoration drama by John Dryden, 1675 based loosely on the figures of Aurangzeb , the then-reigning Mughal Emperor of India; his brother, Murad Baksh ; and their father Shah Jahan . The piece was Dryden's last drama to be written in rhymed verse...

  • Thomas Duffet
    Thomas Duffet
    Thomas Duffet , or Duffett, was an Irish playwright and songwriter active in England in the 1670s. He is remembered for his popular songs and his burlesques of the serious plays of John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, and Sir William Davenant.By profession, Duffet was a milliner; he...

     - Psyche Debauch'd
  • Sir Francis Fane
    Francis Fane (dramatist)
    Sir Francis Fane, of Fulbeck, in the county of Lincoln, K.B. was a writer of stage plays and poems and a courtier in the Restoration court of Charles II of England.-Biography:...

     - Love in the Dark
  • Nathaniel Lee
    Nathaniel Lee
    Nathaniel Lee was an English dramatist.He was the son of Dr Richard Lee, a Presbyterian clergyman who was rector of Hatfield and held many preferments under the Commonwealth...

     - Nero, Emperor of Rome
  • George Lesly - Fire and Brimstone, or the Destruction of Sodom
  • Thomas Otway
    Thomas Otway
    Thomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd .-Life:...

     - Alcibiades
  • Henry Nevil Payne
    Henry Nevil Payne
    Henry Nevil Payne was a dramatist and agitator for the Roman Catholic cause in Scotland and England. He wrote The Fatal Jealousie , The Morning Ramble , and The Siege of Constantinople . After he finished writing plays, he was heavily involved in the Montgomery Plot in 1689, and was captured and...

     - The Siege of Constantinople
  • Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.-Life:Shadwell was born at Stanton Hall, Norfolk, and educated at Bury St Edmunds School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1656. He left the university without a degree, and...

     - The Libertine
  • William Wycherley
    William Wycherley
    William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...

     - The Country Wife
    The Country Wife
    The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title itself contains a lewd pun...


Poetry

  • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...

     - A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679
    1679 in literature
    This article lists some of the most significant events of the year 1679 in literature.-Events:*John Locke returns to England from France.*Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France....

    )

Births

  • September 2 - William Somervile
    William Somervile
    William Somervile or Somerville was an English poet.-Ancestry:The name Somervile is derived from a town near Caen in Normandy subsequently named Somervile....

    , poet (died 1742)
  • October 11 - Samuel Clarke
    Samuel Clarke
    thumb|right|200px|Samuel ClarkeSamuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman.-Early life and studies:...

    , philosopher (died 1729)

Deaths

  • September 23 - Valentin Conrart
    Valentin Conrart
    Valentin Conrart was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant of seat 2.-Biography:He was born in Paris of Calvinist parents, and was educated for business. However, after his father's death in 1620, he began to move in literary circles, and soon acquired a...

    , co-founder of the French Academie (born 1603)
  • December 6 - John Lightfoot
    John Lightfoot
    John Lightfoot was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.-Life:...

    , theologian (born 1602)
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