1728 in literature

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The year 1728 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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The Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal are founded by Daniel Defoe and his son-in-law, Henry Baker
Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan launch The Intelligencer (periodical).
John Rich, manager of the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, mounts the first production of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay. Its great success makes "Rich gay and Gay rich."

Anonymous - Memoirs of an English Officer "by Captain George Carleton"
Joseph Addison - The Christian Poet (posth.)
Penelope Aubin - The Life and Adventures of the Young Count Albertus (sequel)
Peter Browne - The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding
Ephraim Chambers - Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Thomas Cooke - The Works of Hesiod (first translation of Hesiod into English)
John Dennis - Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock
Henry Fielding - The Masquerade ("by Lemuel Gulliver")
James Gibbs - A Book of Architecture
Eliza Haywood - The Agreeable Caledonian
Francis Hutcheson - An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
David Mallet - The Excursion
John Oldmixon
- The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick
- An Essay on Criticism
Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie - The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565 (written about 1575, in the Scots language)
Christopher Pitt - An Essay on Virgil's Aeneid
Alexander Pope - The Dunciad
James Ralph
- Night
- Sawney (answer to Dunciad)
- Zeuma

Elizabeth Rowe - Friendship in Death
Richard Savage - The Bastard
- - Nature in Perfection
George Sewell - Posthumous Works of Dr. George Sewell
Thomas Sheridan - The Satyrs of Persius
Jonathan Swift - A Short View of the State of Ireland
James Thomson - Spring (part of The Four Seasons)
Ned Ward - Durgen (satire of "a Pompous Satyrist")
William Wycherley - The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald (part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other "Tory" wits)
Edward Young
- Ocean
- A Vindication of Providence

Colley Cibber & Sir John Vanbrugh - A Journey to London
Henry Fielding - Love in Several Masques
John Gay - The Beggar's Opera (opera)
Pierre de Marivaux - Le Trionphe de Plutus
John Mottley - The Craftsman
Alexis Piron - Les Fils ingrats
Lewis Theobald - Double Falsehood, or the Distress'd Lovers (reportedly adapted from Cardenio, by Fletcher and Shakespeare)
Sir John Vanbrugh - The Provok'd Husband