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1726 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1726.

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Events

  • February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
  • April 5 – Publication in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.
  • May 1 – Voltaire arrives for a 3-year stay in England.
  • May 25 – Britain's first circulating library is opened in Edinburgh (Scotland) by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
  • October 26 – Publication in London (anonymously in two volumes) of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships; it sells out within a week.
  • Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
  • Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension and annuls her marriage.
  • The Gujin Tushu Jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.

    • Fiction

  • Anonymous – Gulliver Decyphered
  • Penelope Aubin – The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
  • Jane Barker – The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
  • William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe)
  • Eliza Haywood
  • The City Jilt
  • The Mercenary Lover
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Cadenus and Vanessa
  • Lewis Theobald – Shakespeare Restored
  • José Francisco de Isla – Papeles critico-apologéticos
  • Diego de Torres Villarroel – El ermitaño y Torres
  • Martín Sarmiento – Reflexiones sobre el Diccionario de la lengua castellana que compuso la Real Academia en el año de 1726

    • Drama

  • Aaron Hill – The Fatal Extravagance
  • Thomas Southerne – Money the Mistress
  • Leonard Welsted – The Dissembling Wanton

    • Poetry

  • Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer
  • Richard Savage – Miscellaneous Poems
  • William Somervile – Occasional Poems
  • Jonathan Swift (anonymously) – Cadenus and Vanessa (written 1713)
  • James Thomson – Winter (part of The Four Seasons)

    • Non-fiction

  • John Balguy – A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
  • Joseph Butler – Fifteen Sermons
  • Anthony Collins – The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
  • Corporate authorship – The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
  • Daniel Defoe
  • The Political History of the Devil
  • A System of Magick
  • John Dennis – The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
  • William Law
  • The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
  • A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
  • William Penn
  • Fruits of a Father's Love
  • A Collection of the Works of William Penn
  • (with William Pulteney) – The Discovery
  • Joseph Spence – An Essay on Pope's Odyssey (concerning a translation of Homer's Odyssey by Alexander Pope)

    • Births

  • April 7 – Charles Burney, English historian of music and composer (died 1814)
  • June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
  • September 2 – John Howard, English philanthropist and writer (died 1790)
  • September 25 – Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian author and librarian (died 1800)
  • September 26 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish natural philosopher (died 1796)

    • Deaths

  • March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (born 1664)
  • April 5 – Ludwig Babenstuber, German theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
  • April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theologian and critic (born 1650)
  • May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Irish poet (born 1659)
  • July 5 – Domenico Viva, Italian theologian (born 1648)
  • July 6 – Humfrey Wanley, English librarian and palaeographer (born 1672)
  • December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English historian (born 1665)
  • December 11 – Jacques Bouillart, French Benedictine historian (born 1669)
  • Unknown dates
  • Charles Shadwell, English dramatist (unknown year of birth)
  • Daniel Whitby, English theologian (born 1638)

    • References

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