1725 in literature

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The year 1725 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.
In China, 66 copies of a 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times) are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze.
Charles Killigrew dies, after 48 years in office as Master of the Revels.

Joseph Addison - Miscellanies
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (first printed edition)
Thomas Cooke - The Battle of the Poets (satire of Alexander Pope)
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
Zacharey 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 (transl. of Marco Girolamo Vida)
Alexander Pope - The Odyssey of Homer vols. i - iii.
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