1726 in literature

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The year 1726 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Voltaire arrives for a 3 year stay in England.
Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre.
Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism.

Anonymous - Gulliver Decyphered
Corporate authorship - The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
Penelope Aubin - The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
John Balguy - A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
Jane Barker - The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
Joseph Butler - Fifteen Sermons
William Rufus Chetwood - The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attrib. Daniel Defoe)
Anthony Collins - The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
Daniel Defoe - The Political History of the Devil
- - A System of Magick
John Dennis - The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
Eliza Haywood - The City Jilt
- - The Mercenary Lover
William Law - The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
- - A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
William Penn - Fruits of a Father's Love
- - A Collection of the Works of William Penn
Alexander Pope - The Odyssey of Homer
- and William Pulteney - The Discovery
Richard Savage - Miscellaneous Poems
William Somervile - Occasional Poems
Joseph Spence - An Essay on Pope's Odyssey (concerning a translation of Homer's Odyssey by Alexander Pope)
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
- - Cadenus and Vanessa
Lewis Theobald - Shakespeare Restored
James Thomson - Winter (part of The Four Seasons)

April 7 - Charles Burney, music historian and father of Fanny Burney
June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
September 25 - Angelo Maria Bandini, author and librarian (died 1800)
date unknown
- John H. D. Anderson, natural philosopher (died 1796)
- John Howard

March 26 - Sir John Vanbrugh, dramatist and architect (born 1664)
April 5 - Ludwig Babenstuber, theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
May 20 - Nicholas Brady, poet (born 1659)
December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, historian (born 1665)
date unknown
- Jeremy Collier, theologian and critic
- Daniel Whitby, theologian