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The year 1707 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Defoe, John Arbuthnot, and Anne's ministry, the Act of Union between England and Scotland takes place.
• Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock -- one of the most famous literary marriages of all time, thanks to their correspondence.
• Controversial publisher Edmund Curll announces to the press that he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions - even though the rights belong to someone else.

New books

• Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of England (transl.)
  • - The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
• Richard Baxter - The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
• Thomas Brown - The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
• Samuel Cobb - Poems on Several Occasions
• Anthony Collins - Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
• Jean de Beaugue - Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
• Thomas D'Urfey - Stories, Moral and Comical
• Laurence Echard - The History of England vol. 1
• Delarivière Manley - The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
• Isaac Newton - Arithmetica Universalis
• John Oldmixon - The Muses Mercury (periodical)
• John Pomfret - Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
• A. Phillipick Schiner - Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translation by John Toland)
• Jonathan Swift - A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
• Nahum Tate - The Triumph of Union
• Matthew Tindal - A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (seq. to 1706 work)
• Catherine Trotter - A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
• Isaac Watts - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted thereafter)
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon

New drama

• Joseph Addison - Rosamund (opera)
• Susanna Centlivre - The Platonick Lady
• Colley Cibber - The Lady's Last Stake
  • - The Double Gallant
• George Farquhar - The Beaux' Stratagem
• Peter Anthony Motteux - Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
• Nicholas Rowe - The Royal Convert
• Nahum Tate - Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)

Births

• January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
• February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, novelist (died 1777)
• February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, dramatist (died 1793)
• April 22 - Henry Fielding, novelist (died 1754)
• August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, philologist (died 1781)
• September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
• Charles Wesley, Church of England clergyman and one of the architects of Methodism

Deaths

• January 20 - Humphrey Hody, theologian
• April 20 - George Farquhar, dramatist (born 1678)
• June 23 - John Mill, theologian (born c.1645)
• September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomat (born 1663)
• September 24 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
• December 27 - Jean Mabillon, the founder of palaeography (born 1632)
• date unknown - Alexandre Exquemelin, pirate author (born c.1645)
• John Tutchin, controversialist, journalist, and "literary dunce"