1725 in literature
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The year 1725 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.
- Death of Peter the Great of Russia.
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 of Alexander 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
- John Glanvill - Poems
- Zachary Grey - 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 - An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (on aesthetics)
- 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. of Marco Girolamo Vida)
- Alexander Pope - The Odyssey of Homer vols. i - iii.
- Allan Ramsay - The Gentle Shepherd
- 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
New drama
- Colley Cibber - Caesar in Aegypt
- Thomas Sheridan - The Philoctetes of Sophocles
Births
- April 2 - Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and writer (died 1798)
- July 24 - John Newton, clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (died 1807)
- date unknown
- William Mason, poet
- Paul de Rapin, historian
Deaths
- January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, dramatist
- December 7 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (born 1661)
- date unknown - Richard Fiddes, historian (born 1671)
- Peter the Great