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The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] 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.
• The Haymarket Theatre opens on December 29.

[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 13 - Richard Hurd (died 1808)
• July 18 - Gilbert White (died 1793)
• October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, romance writer (died 1792)
• October 19 - John Woolman (died 1772), 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 throne

[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)