1722 in literature

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The year 1722 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Penelope Aubin -The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (fiction)
- The Noble Slaves (fiction)
Phanuel Bacon - The Kite
Daniel Bellamy - The Cambro-Britannic Engineer
Thomas Cooke - Marlborough (written after his death)
Samuel Croxall - Fables of Aesop and Others
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
- A Journal of the Plague Year
- Colonel Jack
- Due Preparations for the Plague
- Religious Courtship
John Dennis - A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter
William Hamilton - The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace
Eliza Haywood - The British Recluse (fiction)
Hildebrand Jacob - Bedlam
Allan Ramsay - Fables and Tales
Sir Charles Sedley - Works
William Sewel - The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers
Jonathan Swift - A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General (satire on Marlborough, written before his death)
Matthew Tindal - A Defence of Our Present Happy Establishment
Isaac Watts - Death and Heaven
William Wollaston - The Religion of Nature Delineated

April 11 - Christopher Smart, English poet (died 1771)
September 22 - John Home, Scottish dramatist (died 1808)
October 4 - Dominic Schram, theologian (died 1797)
date unknown
- John Brown, theologian
- John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist
- Mary Leapor, poet (died 1746)
- Joseph Warton, English poet and critic (died 1800)