1720 in literature
The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
* In October, the
South Sea Bubble began to burst. Its collapse would affect the fortunes of many writers and occupy many works of literature.
* TheHaymarket Theatre opens on December 29.New books
*
Arthur Blackamore - "The Perfidious Brethren"
*Thomas Boston - "Human Nature in its Four-fold 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 13 - Richard Hurd (died1808 )
*July 18 -Gilbert White (died1793 )
*October 17 -Jacques Cazotte , romance writer (died1792 )
*October 19 -John Woolman (died1772 ), Quaker in colonial America
*Samuel Foote , actor and playwright
*Elizabeth Montagu , future "bluestocking society" founder
*Charles Edward Stuart , "Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "The Young Pretender" to the English throneDeaths
*
April 21 -Antoine Hamilton (born1646 )
*June 27 -Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu , poet (born1639 )
*August 5 -Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea , poet (b. 1661)
*August 9 -Simon Ockley (born1678 ), writer on the history of theMiddle East
*August 17 -Anne Dacier (Madame Dacier) (born c.1654 )
*September 7 -Eusèbe Renaudot , theologian (b. 1646)
*September 9 -Philippe de Dangeau , author (born1638 )
*"date unknown" - John Hughes, poet (b. 1677)
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