1720 in literature

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… 1710 ^. 1711 ^. 1712 ^. 1713 ^. 1714 ^. 1715 ^. 1716 … 1717 1718 1719 -1720- 1721 1722 1723 … 1724 ^. 1725 ^. 1726 ^. 1727 ^. 1728 ^. 1729 ^. 1730 … In poetry: 1717 1718 1719 -1720- 1721 1722 1723
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The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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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.

Arthur Blackamore - The Perfidious Brethren
Thomas Boston - Human Nature in its Four-fold 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

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