1775 in poetry

Events

Works published

Colonial America">American poetry">Colonial America

• 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

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• 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

Births

• 30 January - Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
• 10 February - Charles Lamb, English writer and poet
• 12 February - Charles Lloyd, English poet, friend of Lamb
• 24 March - Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer
• 15 June - Carlo Porta, Italian poet
• 9 July - Matthew Lewis, English Gothic novelist and dramatist
• 11 July - Joseph Blanco White, born José María Blanco Crespo, Spanish-born theologian and poet writing in English
• 31 August - Agnes Bulmer, English poet
• 8 September - John Leyden, Scottish orientalist
• 16 December - Jane Austen, English novelist and poet

Deaths

• 21 March - Samuel Boyce, English engraver, dramatist and poet
• 2 October - Fukuda Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼, Japanese woman poet of the Edo period, prominent writer of haiku
• Approximate date - Ramprasad Sen, Bengali Shakta poet