This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1725.
Events June 12 – Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet.Ehman, Esther (1986) Madame du Chatelet. Leamington Spa: Berg. . 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 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 (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, translator -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)(in Swedish) Helmius, Agneta "Det Olyckliga Swenska Fruentimret": Om kokboksförfattarinnan Anna Maria Rückerschöld och kvinnors villkor på 1700-talet. Polhemsstiftelsen i Stjernsund, Hedemora. 1993. 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)
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