1727 in literature

1727 in literature

The year 1727 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel. He escapes the death penalty by the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford.
* Lewis Theobald's "Double Falsehood, or The Distress'd Lovers", claimed as an adaptation of the otherwise-lost "Cardenio" by Shakespeare and Fletcher, is acted at Drury Lane (and printed the following year).

New books

* Anonymous - "Memoirs of the Court of Liliput" (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
* Henry Baker - "The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man"
* Elizabeth Boyd as "Louisa" - "Variety"
* Mary Davys - "The Accomplished Rake"
* Daniel Defoe - "Conjugal Lewdness"
** - "An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions"
** - "A New Family Instructor"
* John Gay - "Fables"
*Eliza Haywood - "Philidore and Placentia"
** - "Cleomelia"
** - "The Perplex'd Dutchess"
** - "The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania" (roman a clef)
* Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - "A Collection of Several Tracts"
* John Oldmixon - "Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd"
* James Ralph - "The Tempest"
* Henry St. John - "The Occasional Writer" (periodical)
* Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al. - "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse"
* William Warburton - "The Legal Judicature in Chancery stated" (published anonymously)

New drama

*John Durant Breval - "The Strollers"
*Philip Frowde - "The Fall of Saguntum"
*James Moore Smythe - "The Rival Modes"
*Lewis Theobald - "The Rape of Proserpine"

Poetry

*Christopher Pitt - "Poems and Translations"
*Alexander Pope (attr.) - "Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels" (possibly by the whole Scribblerus Club)
*James Thomson
**"A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton"
**"Summer" (part of "The Four Seasons")
*John Wright - "Spiritual Songs for Children"

Births

* March 7 - André Morellet, economist and writer (died 1819)
* December 27 - Arthur Murphy, biographer (died 1805)
* December - John Hoole, translator (died 1803)

Deaths

* February 13 - William Wotton, scholar and frequent target of Jonathan Swift (born 1666)
* September 17 - Glückel of Hameln, diarist (born 1647)


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