1720 in literature
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The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- October - The South Sea Bubble began to burst. Its collapse will affect the fortunes of many writers and occupy many works of literature.
- December 29 - The Haymarket Theatre in London opens.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- January - Samuel Foote, actor and playwright
- January 13 - Richard Hurd (died 1808)
- July 18 - Gilbert White, naturalist (died 1793)
- October 2- Elizabeth Montagu, future "bluestocking society" founder
- October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, romance writer (died 1792)
- October 19 - John Woolman (died 1772), Quaker in colonial America
[edit] Deaths
- April 21 - Antoine Hamilton (born 1646)
- June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, poet (born 1639)
- August 5 - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, poet (b. 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 (b. 1646)
- September 9 - Philippe de Dangeau, author (born 1638)
- date unknown - John Hughes, poet (b. 1677)
