# 1725 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1725.

## Events

* June 12 – Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.
* December – The library of Charles Killigrew, who was the Master of the Revels for 48 years, is sold a few months after his death.
* In China, work on the 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, begun by Chen Menglei in 1700, is completed.

## New books
### Prose

* Joseph Addison – Miscellanies
* The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (first printed edition)
* 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
* Johann Joseph Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Mount Parnassus, in Latin)
* Zachary 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 (translation of Marco Girolamo Vida)
* 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
* Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Aprobación apologetica del scepticismo médico del doctor Martín Martínez
* Diego de Torres Villarroel – Correo del otro mundo al gran Piscator de Salamanca

### Drama

* Colley Cibber – Caesar in Aegypt
* Augustin Nadal – Mariamne
* Gabriel Odingsells –
** The Bath Unmasked
** The Capricious Lovers
* Thomas Sheridan – The Philoctetes of Sophocles

### Poetry

* Henry Baker – Original Poems
* Henry Carey – Namby Pamby (satire on Ambrose Philips)
* Thomas Cooke – The Battle of the Poets (satire on Alexander Pope)
* John Glanvill – Poems
* Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer vols. i–iii
* Allan Ramsay – The Gentle Shepherd

## Births

* February 5 – Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (died 1805)
* February 12 – William Mason, English poet and gardener (died 1797)
* March 22 – Ignacy Nagurczewski, Polish writer and translator (died 1811)
* April 2 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian autobiographer and adventurer (died 1798)
* July 24 – John Newton, English hymnist, naval officer and cleric (died 1807)
* December 5 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and artist (died 1812)

## Deaths

* January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門), Japanese dramatist (born 1653)
* January 26 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince and writer (born 1658)
* February 8 – John Bellers, English writer and Quaker (born 1654)
* March 2 – Johan Peringskiöld, Swedish antiquary and translator (born 1689)
* April 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (born 1661)
* June 29 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer (born 1657)
* September 5 – Christian Wernicke, German epigrammist (born 1661)
* December 7 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (born 1661)
* Unknown date – Richard Fiddes, English historian and cleric (born 1671)