1725 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1725.
Events
- June 12 â Ãmilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.[1]
- December â The library of Charles Killigrew, who was the Master of the Revels for 48 years, is sold a few months after his death.
- In China, work on the 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, begun by Chen Menglei in 1700, is completed.[2]
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison â Miscellanies
- The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (first printed edition)
- Mary Davys â The Works of Mrs. Davys
- Daniel Defoe â The Complete English Tradesman
- George Bubb Dodington â An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole
- John Dyer â A New Miscellany
- Laurence Echard â The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England, in the Year, 1688
- Benjamin Franklin â A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
- Johann Joseph Fux â Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Mount Parnassus, in Latin)
- Zachary Grey â A Defence of Our Antient and Modern Historians (against John Oldmixon)
- Eliza Haywood
- Bath-Intrigues
- Fantomina
- Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia
- Secret Histories, Novels and Poems
- Francis Hutcheson â An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (on aesthetics)
- John Oldmixon â A Review of Dr. Zachary Grey's Defence
- Richardson Pack â A New Collection of Miscellanies
- Christopher Pitt â Vida's Art of Poetry (translation of Marco Girolamo Vida)
- Richard Savage â The Authors of the Town
- William Shakespeare â The Works of Shakespear (edited by Pope)
- Jonathan Swift â Fraud Detected; or, The Hibernian Patriot
- Giambattista Vico â New Science
- Isaac Watts â Logick
- George Whitehead â The Christian Progress of George Whitehead
- Edward Young â The Universal Passion: Satire
- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo â Aprobación apologetica del scepticismo médico del doctor MartÃn MartÃnez
- Diego de Torres Villarroel â Correo del otro mundo al gran Piscator de Salamanca
Drama
- Colley Cibber â Caesar in Aegypt
- Augustin Nadal â Mariamne
- Gabriel Odingsells â
- Thomas Sheridan, translator -The Philoctetes of Sophocles
Poetry
- Henry Baker â Original Poems
- Henry Carey â Namby Pamby (satire on Ambrose Philips)
- Thomas Cooke â The Battle of the Poets (satire on Alexander Pope)
- John Glanvill â Poems
- Alexander Pope â The Odyssey of Homer vols. iâiii
- Allan Ramsay â The Gentle Shepherd
Births
- February 5 â Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (died 1805)[3]
- February 12 â William Mason, English poet and gardener (died 1797)
- March 22 â Ignacy Nagurczewski, Polish writer and translator (died 1811)
- April 2 â Giacomo Casanova, Italian autobiographer and adventurer (died 1798)
- July 24 â John Newton, English hymnist, naval officer and cleric (died 1807)
- December 5 â Susanna Duncombe, English poet and artist (died 1812)[4]
Deaths
- January 6 â Chikamatsu Monzaemon (è¿æ¾ éå·¦è¡é), Japanese dramatist (born 1653)[5]
- January 26 â Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince and writer (born 1658)
- February 8 â John Bellers, English writer and Quaker (born 1654)
- March 2 â Johan Peringskiöld, Swedish antiquary and translator (born 1689)
- April 25 â Paul de Rapin, French historian (born 1661)
- June 29 â Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer (born 1657)
- September 5 â Christian Wernicke, German epigrammist (born 1661)
- December 7 â Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (born 1661)
- Unknown date â Richard Fiddes, English historian and cleric (born 1671)[6]