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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1725.


      Events


      June 12 – Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.
      December – 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.


      New books




      = Prose

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      Joseph Addison – Miscellanies
      The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (first printed edition)
      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
      Johann Joseph Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Mount Parnassus, in Latin)
      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 (translation of Marco Girolamo Vida)
      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
      Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Aprobación apologetica del scepticismo médico del doctor Martín Martínez
      Diego de Torres Villarroel – Correo del otro mundo al gran Piscator de Salamanca


      = Drama

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      Colley Cibber – Caesar in Aegypt
      Augustin Nadal – Mariamne
      Gabriel Odingsells –
      The Bath Unmasked
      The Capricious Lovers
      Thomas Sheridan – The Philoctetes of Sophocles


      = Poetry

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      Henry Baker – Original Poems
      Henry Carey – Namby Pamby (satire on Ambrose Philips)
      Thomas Cooke – The Battle of the Poets (satire on Alexander Pope)
      John Glanvill – Poems
      Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer vols. i–iii
      Allan Ramsay – The Gentle Shepherd


      Births


      February 5 – Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (died 1805)
      February 12 – William Mason, English poet and gardener (died 1797)
      March 22 – Ignacy Nagurczewski, Polish writer and translator (died 1811)
      April 2 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian autobiographer and adventurer (died 1798)
      July 24 – John Newton, English hymnist, naval officer and cleric (died 1807)
      December 5 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and artist (died 1812)


      Deaths


      January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門), Japanese dramatist (born 1653)
      January 26 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince and writer (born 1658)
      February 8 – John Bellers, English writer and Quaker (born 1654)
      March 2 – Johan Peringskiöld, Swedish antiquary and translator (born 1689)
      April 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (born 1661)
      June 29 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer (born 1657)
      September 5 – Christian Wernicke, German epigrammist (born 1661)
      December 7 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (born 1661)
      Unknown date – Richard Fiddes, English historian and cleric (born 1671)


      References

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