The year 1675 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• November 11 - Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.

New books

• Joshua Barnes - Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
• Edward Phillips - Theatrum poetarum
• A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted
• Mary Trye - Medicatrix, or the Woman Physician
• Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - Les Désordres de l’amour
• John Wilkins - Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion

New 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
• George Lesly - Fire and Brimstone, or the Destruction of Sodom
• 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

• September 2 - William Somervile, poet (died 1742)
• October 11 - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (died 1729)

Deaths

• September 23 - Valentin Conrart, co-founder of the French Academie (born 1603)
• December 6 - John Lightfoot, theologian (born 1602)