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1718 in literature

The year 1718 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter.
Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Voltaire is released from the Bastille, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Joseph Addison
- Poems on Several Occasions
- The Resurrection
Nicholas Amhurst - Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
Daniel Defoe (attr.) - A Vindication of the Press
Charles Gildon - The Complete Art of Poetry
Mary Hearne - The Lover's Week
Simon Ockley - The History of the Saracens, volume 2
Richardson Pack - Miscellanies in Verse and Prose
Ambrose Philips - The Free-Thinker (periodical)
Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer iv
Thomas Purney - The Cevalier de St. George
Allan Ramsay -Christ's Kirk on the Green (revised version)
John Ray - Philosophical Letters
John Strype - The Life and Acts of John Witgift
John Toland - Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - Remains of the Earl of Rochester

February 18
- Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist, author and artist (died 1791)
- Robert Henry, Scottish historian (died 1790)
April 7 - Hugh Blair, Scottish rhetorician (died 1800)
May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, philosopher (died 1799)
July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)

April 27 – Jacques Bernard, French theologian (b. 1658)
July 28 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli (born 1674)
date unknown
- Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet (b. 1648)
- Richard Cumberland, philosopher (b. 1631)
- Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Norwegian historian (b. 1649)
- Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (b. 1674)