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The year 1726 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Voltaire arrives for a 3 year stay in England.
- Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre.
- Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism.
New books
- Anonymous - Gulliver Decyphered
- Corporate authorship - The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
- Penelope Aubin - The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
- 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
- Jane Barker - The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
- Joseph Butler - Fifteen Sermons
- William Rufus Chetwood - The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attrib. Daniel Defoe)
- Anthony Collins - The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
- Daniel Defoe - The Political History of the Devil
- - A System of Magick
- John Dennis - The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
- Eliza Haywood - The City Jilt
- - The Mercenary Lover
- 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
- Alexander Pope - The Odyssey of Homer
- and William Pulteney - The Discovery
- Richard Savage - Miscellaneous Poems
- William Somervile - Occasional Poems
- Joseph Spence - An Essay on Pope's Odyssey (concerning a translation of Homer's Odyssey by Alexander Pope)
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
- - Cadenus and Vanessa
- Lewis Theobald - Shakespeare Restored
- James Thomson - Winter (part of The Four Seasons)
New drama
- Aaron Hill - The Fatal Extravagance
- Thomas Southerne - Money the Mistress
- Leonard Welsted - The Dissembling Wanton
Births
- April 7 - Charles Burney, music historian and father of Fanny Burney
- June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
- September 25 - Angelo Maria Bandini, author and librarian (died 1800)
- date unknown
- John H. D. Anderson, natural philosopher (died 1796)
- John Howard
Deaths
- March 26 - Sir John Vanbrugh, dramatist and architect (born 1664)
- April 5 - Ludwig Babenstuber, theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
- May 20 - Nicholas Brady, poet (born 1659)
- December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, historian (born 1665)
- date unknown
- Jeremy Collier, theologian and critic
- Daniel Whitby, theologian
