1775 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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 (later published in completed form in 1782)

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 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Charles Lamb (died 1834), English/Welsh essayist and poet
 * Walter Savage Landor (died 1864), English writer and poet
 * Matthew Gregory Lewis (died 1818), English novelist and dramatist
 * John Leyden (died 1811), British orientalist
 * Joseph Blanco White (died 1841), Spanish theologian and poet
 * Jane Austen (died 1817), English novelist and poet

Deaths
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 * October 2 – Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (born 1703), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)