1720 in literature
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The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- September–October - "South Sea Bubble": the South Sea Company in England collapses, affecting the fortunes of many writers, including John Gay, and occupying many works of literature. There are suspicions of complicity by Robert Walpole's government.
- December 29 - The Haymarket Theatre in London opens with a performance of La Fille a la Morte, ou le Badeaut de Paris.
New books
- Arthur Blackamore - The Perfidious Brethren
- Thomas Boston - Human Nature in its Fourfold State
- Jane Brereton - An expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison
- Thomas Brown - The Remains of Mr. Thomas Brown
- William Rufus Chetwood - The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Capt. Richard Falconer
- Samuel Croxall - The Fair Circassian
- Daniel Defoe
- Memoirs of a Cavalier
- Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Gildon - All for the Better (fiction)
- Thomas Hearne - A Collection of Curious Discourses
- Aaron Hill - The Creation
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
- Hildebrand Jacob - The Curious Maid
- Delarivière Manley - The Power of Love (novels)
- Alexander Pennecuik - Streams From Hellicon
- Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer v, vi
- Richard Rawlinson - The English Topographer
- Martha Sansom - The Epistles of Clio and Strephon
- George Sewell - A New Collection of Original Poems
- Richard Steele
- The Crisis of Property
- A Nation a Family
- Jonathan Swift - A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture
- William Temple - The Works of Sir William Temple
- Ned Ward - The Delights of the Bottle
- "W. P." - The Jamaica Lady
New drama
- Charles Buckingham - The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France
- John Dennis - The Invader of His Country
- Benjamin Griffin - Whig and Tory
- John Hughes - The Siege of Damascus
- John Leigh - Hob's Wedding
- Pierre de Marivaux
- L'Amour et la vérité
- Arlequin poli par l'amour
- Charles Molloy - The Half-Pay Officers
- John Mottley - The Imperial Captives
Poetry
- John Gay - Poems on Several Occasions
- A New Miscellany of Original Poems (various authors)
- Matthew Prior - The Conversation
- Allan Ramsay
- A Poem on the South-Sea
- Poems
Births
- January - Samuel Foote, actor and playwright (died 1777)
- January 13 - Richard Hurd (died 1808)
- July 18 - Gilbert White, naturalist (died 1793)
- October 2- Elizabeth Montagu, future "bluestocking society" founder (died 1800)
- October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, romance writer (died 1792)
- October 19 - John Woolman, Quaker in colonial America (died 1772)
- Date unknown - Madeleine de Puisieux, French philosopher and feminist writer (died 1798)
Deaths
- April 21 - Antoine Hamilton (born 1646)
- June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, poet (born 1639)
- August 5 - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, poet (born 1661)
- August 9 - Simon Ockley (born 1678), writer on the history of the Middle East
- August 17 - Anne Dacier (Madame Dacier) (born c.1654)
- September 7 - Eusèbe Renaudot, theologian (born 1646)
- September 9 - Philippe de Dangeau, author (born 1638)
- date unknown - John Hughes, poet (born 1677)
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