1727 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1727.

Events

November 22 – Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel the previous night. He escapes the death penalty through the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford, and others.
December 13 – Lewis Theobald's Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers, claimed as an adaptation of the otherwise lost Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, is acted at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. It will be printed the following year.
unknown date – Publisher Edmund Curll is convicted under English law for publishing an English translation of Venus in the Cloister under the common law offence of disturbing the peace, setting a legal precedent for prosecutions for obscenity.

Anonymous – Memoirs of the Court of Liliput
Henry Baker – The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
Elizabeth Boyd – Variety
Cadwallader Colden – The History of the Five Indian Nations
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
Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez – Anecdotes persanes, dédiées au roy
Eliza Haywood
*Philidore and Placentia
*Cleomelia
*The Perplex'd Dutchess
*The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon – A Collection of Several Tracts
Madame de Lambert – Réflexions nouvelles sur les femmes, ou Métaphysique d'amour
John Oldmixon – Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd
Arabella Plantin – The Ingrateful
James Ralph – The Tempest
Henry St. John – The Occasional Writer
Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al. – Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Évrard Titon du Tillet – Le Parnasse François
William Warburton – The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated
José Francisco de Isla
*Juventud triunfante
*El tapabocas
Diego de Torres Villarroel – ''Visiones y visitas de Torres con Francisco de Quevedo por la corte''

Christopher Pitt – Poems and Translations
Alexander Pope – Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels
James Thomson
*A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
*Summer
John Wright – ''Spiritual Songs for Children''