1727 in literature

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The year 1727 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel. He escapes the death penalty by the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford.
Lewis Theobald's Double Falshood, or The Distress'd Lovers, claimed as an adaptation of the otherwise-lost Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, is acted at Drury Lane (and printed the following year).

Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of Liliput (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
Henry Baker - The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
Elizabeth Boyd as "Louisa" - Variety
Mary Davys - The Accomplished Rake
Daniel Defoe - Conjugal Lewdness
- - An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
- - A New Family Instructor
John Gay - Fables
Eliza Haywood - Philidore and Placentia
- - Cleomelia
- - The Perplex'd Dutchess
- - The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (roman a clef)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - A Collection of Several Tracts
John Oldmixon - Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd
James Ralph - The Tempest
Henry St. John - The Occasional Writer (periodical)
Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Évrard Titon du Tillet - Le Parnasse françois (1st edition)
William Warburton - The Legal Judicature in Chancery stated (published anonymously)

Christopher Pitt - Poems and Translations
Alexander Pope (attr.) - Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels (possibly by the whole Scribblerus Club)
James Thomson
- A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
- Summer (part of The Four Seasons)
John Wright - Spiritual Songs for Children

February 13 - William Wotton, scholar and frequent target of Jonathan Swift (born 1666)
September 17 - Glückel of Hameln, diarist (born 1647)