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
- 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 Revolution, and the Establishment of England, in the Year, 1688
- Benjamin Franklin – A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
- Johann Joseph Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum
- Zachary Grey – A Defence of Our Antient and Modern Historians
- 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
- John Oldmixon – A Review of Dr. Zachary Grey's Defence
- Richardson Pack – A New Collection of Miscellanies
- Christopher Pitt – Vida's Art of Poetry
- Richard Savage – The Authors of the Town
- William Shakespeare – The Works of Shakespear
- 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, translator -''The Philoctetes of Sophocles''
Poetry
- Henry Baker – Original Poems
- Henry Carey – Namby Pamby
- Thomas Cooke – The Battle of the Poets
- 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
- February 12 – William Mason, English poet and gardener
- March 22 – Ignacy Nagurczewski, Polish writer and translator
- April 2 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian autobiographer and adventurer
- July 24 – John Newton, English hymnist, naval officer and cleric
- December 5 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and artist
Deaths
- January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist
- January 26 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince and writer
- February 8 – John Bellers, English writer and Quaker
- March 2 – Johan Peringskiöld, Swedish antiquary and translator
- April 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian
- June 29 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer
- September 5 – Christian Wernicke, German epigrammist
- December 7 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor
- Unknown date – Richard Fiddes, English historian and cleric