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- James Bramston – The Art of Politics
- Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions
- Edward Cooke – Battel of the Poets
- Thomas Cooke – Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables
- Daniel Defoe as Andrew Moreton, Esq. – Second Thoughts are Best: or, a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
- Robert Drury – Madagascar, or Robert Drury's Journal
- William Hatchett – The Adventures of Abdalla (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Bignon first published in Paris, 1712, as Les Avantures d'Abdalla)
- Eliza Haywood – The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies
- Thomas Innes – Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain
- Soame Jenyns – The Art of Dancing
- William Law – A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (extremely popular devotional manual)
- Daniel Mace – The New Testament in Greek and English (a diaglot)
- Isaac Newton – The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (English translation of Newton's Latin work)
- John Oldmixon – The History of England, during the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
- William Pulteney – The Honest Jury
- James Ralph – Clarinda
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters on Various Occasions
- Richard Savage – The Wanderer
- Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd[2]
- Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus[3]
- Jonathan Swift
- Jacob Campo Weyerman - De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen (The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses)
- William Wycherley – The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728)
- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Ilustración apologética
- January 12 – Edmund Burke, Irish political writer and politician (died 1797)
- January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, dramatist and critic (died 1781)
- January 23 – Clara Reeve, English novelist (died 1807)[5]
- April 13 – Thomas Percy, English poet, translator and bishop (died 1811)
- August 11 – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, French poet (died 1807)
- September 6 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher of the Haskalah or Jewish enlightenment (died 1786)
- September 25 – Christian Gottlob Heyne German classicist and archaeologist (died 1812)
- September 29 – John Duncombe, English poet, antiquary and cleric (died 1786)
- Unknown date – Thomas Hawkins, English literary editor and cleric (died 1772)
- January 19 – William Congreve, English dramatist and poet (born 1670)[6]
- May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (born 1675)[7]
- September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672)[8]
- October 9 – Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and religious writer (born 1654)[9]
- November 16 – Abel Boyer, French-born lexicographer, journalist and miscellanist (born c. 1667)
- December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born 1676)[10]
- December 26 – Honoré Tournély, French theologian (b. 1658)[11]
- Unknown date – Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher (born c. 1672)[12]
Bietenholz, Peter (1994). Historia and fabula : myths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age. Leiden New York: Brill. p. 321. ISBN 9789004247130.
Wittkowsky, George (1943), "Swift's Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet", Journal of the History of Ideas, 4 (1), University of Pennsylvania Press: 75–104, doi:10.2307/2707237, JSTOR 2707237
Albert Rosenberg (1953). Sir Richard Blackmore: A Poet and Physician of the Augustan Age. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 158–160.
Charles Bradlaugh (1956). Half-hours with the Freethinkers. J. Watts. p. 46.
John McClintock; James Strong (1889). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper & Brothers. p. 500.