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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1718.

Events

November 1 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope.
November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym. He has been released from the Bastille this year, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter.^[1]
Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of England.^[2]
Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.^[3]

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
Ambrose Philips – The Free-Thinker (periodical)
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, Italian philosopher (died 1799)
July 18 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)^[4]

^ University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1945). Research. p. 190.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Laurence Eusden – British poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student, by S. C. Hammer, M. A." www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ Thomas Spencer Baynes (1875). The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. A. and C. Black. p. 618.
^ Keith Busby (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Rodopi. p. 95. ISBN 90-5183-603-1.
^ "Nicholas Rowe - English writer and editor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2018.