- 1725 in literature
The year 1725 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
*Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.
*Death ofPeter the Great of Russia.
*Charles Killigrew dies, after 48 years in the office of theMaster of the Revels .New books
* Anonymous - "
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage " (first printed edition)
*Joseph Addison - "Miscellanies"
*Henry Baker - "Original Poems"
* Henry Carey - "Namby Pamby "
* Thomas Cooke - "The Battle of the Poets" (satire ofAlexander Pope )
*Mary Davys - "The Works of Mrs. Davys"
*Daniel Defoe - "The Complete English Tradesman"
*George Bubb Dodington - "An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole"
*John Dyer - "A New Miscellany"
*Laurence Echard - "The History of the Revelation"
*Benjamin Franklin - "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain "
*Zacharey Grey - "A Defence of Our Antient and Modern Historians" (againstJohn Oldmixon )
*Eliza Haywood - "Bath-Intrigues"
* - "Fantomina"
* - "Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia"
* - "Secret Histories, Novels and Poems"
*Francis Hutcheson - "An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue" (onaesthetics )
*John Oldmixon - "A Review of Dr. Zachary Grey's Defence"
*Richardson Pack - "A New Collection of Miscellanies"
*Christopher Pitt - "Vida's Art of Poetry" (transl. ofMarco Girolamo Vida )
*Alexander Pope - "The Odyssey of Homer" vols. i - iii.
*Richard Savage - "The Authors of the Town"
*William Shakespeare - "The Works of Shakespear" (edited by Pope)
*Jonathan Swift - "Fraud Detected; or, The Hibernian Patriot"
*Giambattista Vico - "New Science"
*Isaac Watts - "Logick"
* George Whitehead - "The Christian Progress of George Whitehead"
*Edward Young - "The Universal Passion: Satire"Poetry
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John Glanvill - "Poems"
*Allan Ramsay - "The Gentle Shepherd"New drama
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Colley Cibber - "Caesar in Aegypt"
* Gabriel Odingsells - "The Bath Unmask'd"
** - "The Capricious Lovers"
*Thomas Sheridan - "The Philoctetes of Sophocles"Births
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April 2 -Giacomo Casanova , adventurer and writer (died1798 )
*July 24 -John Newton , clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace ") (died1807 )
*"date unknown"
**William Mason, poet
**Paul de Rapin , historianDeaths
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January 6 -Chikamatsu Monzaemon , dramatist
*December 7 -Florent Carton Dancourt , French dramatist and actor (born1661 )
*"date unknown" -Richard Fiddes , historian (born1671 )
*Peter the Great
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