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
• 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

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

  Deaths

• March 21 - Samuel Boyce, English engraver, dramatist and poet
• October 2 - 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