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, 66 copies of a 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China are printed, which requires the crafting of 250,000 movable-type characters cast in bronze.

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 Revelation
 * 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 – 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)
 * 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)