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The year 1727 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

• Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel. He escapes the death penalty by the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford.
• Lewis Theobald's Double Falshood, or The Distress'd Lovers, claimed as an adaptation of the otherwise-lost Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, is acted at Drury Lane (and printed the following year).

[edit] New books

• Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of Liliput (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
• Henry Baker - The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
• Elizabeth Boyd as "Louisa" - Variety
• Mary Davys - The Accomplished Rake
• Daniel Defoe - Conjugal Lewdness
  • - An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
  • - A New Family Instructor
• John Gay - Fables
• Eliza Haywood - Philidore and Placentia
  • - Cleomelia
  • - The Perplex'd Dutchess
  • - The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (roman a clef)
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - A Collection of Several Tracts
• John Oldmixon - Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd
• James Ralph - The Tempest
• Henry St. John - The Occasional Writer (periodical)
• Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
• Évrard Titon du Tillet - Le Parnasse françois (1st edition)
• William Warburton - The Legal Judicature in Chancery stated (published anonymously)

[edit] New drama

• John Durant Breval - The Strollers
• Philip Frowde - The Fall of Saguntum
• James Moore Smythe - The Rival Modes
• Lewis Theobald - The Rape of Proserpine

[edit] Poetry

• Christopher Pitt - Poems and Translations
• Alexander Pope (attr.) - Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels (possibly by the whole Scribblerus Club)
• James Thomson
  • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
  • Summer (part of The Four Seasons)
• John Wright - Spiritual Songs for Children

[edit] Births

• March 7 - André Morellet, economist and writer (died 1819)
• December 27 - Arthur Murphy, biographer (died 1805)
• December - John Hoole, translator (died 1803)

[edit] Deaths

• February 13 - William Wotton, scholar and frequent target of Jonathan Swift (born 1666)
• September 17 - Glückel of Hameln, diarist (born 1647)