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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

  • 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 Revolution, and the Establishment of England, in the Year, 1688
  • 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

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

Poetry

  • 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)

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