- 1721 in literature
The year 1721 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
* Around this time ("first" is debated),
inoculation forsmallpox began in England.
*John Cleland becomes a pupil atWestminster School and is soon expelled for an unknown offense.
*Francis Atterbury is arrested for plotting against the Hanoverian monarchy and being a "Jacobite".
* TheSouth Sea Bubble burst, with many losses of fortune, includingJohn Gay , and there are increasing suspicions of complicity byRobert Walpole 's government.New books
*
Joseph Addison - "The Works of Joseph Addison"
*Penelope Aubin - "The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family"
** - "The Life of Madam de Beaumont"
*Nathan Bailey - "An Universal Etymological Dictionary"
*George Berkeley - "An Essay Towards Preventing the Ruine of Great Britain"
*Richard Blackmore - "A New Version of the Psalms of David"
* Shaftesbury - "Letters from the Late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth"
*Charles Gildon - "The Laws of Poetry"
*Eliza Haywood - "Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier" (transl.)
* Montesquieu - "Lettres persanes" ("Persian Letters ")
*Alexander Pennecuik - "An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company"
*Matthew Prior - "Colin's Mistakes"
*John Strype - "Ecclesiastical Memorials"
*Emanuel Swedenborg - "Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium"
*Jonathan Swift - "The Bubble"
** - "A Letter to a Young Gentlleman, Lately Enter'd into Holy Orders"
*Thomas Tickell - "Kensington Garden"
*Robert Wodrow - "The History of the Sufferings of theChurch of Scotland "New drama
*
Colley Cibber - "The Refusal"
*Eliza Haywood - "The Fair Captive"
*John Mottley - "Antiochus"
* Thomas Odell - "The Chimera"
*Edward Young - "The Revenge"Births
*
March 19 -Tobias Smollett , Scottish physician and author (died1771 )
*November 9 -Mark Akenside , poet (died1770 )
*December 27 -François Hemsterhuis , moral philosopher (died1790 )
*"date unknown"
** William Collins, poet (died1759 )
**Johann Silberschlag , theologian (died 1791)Deaths
*
January 3 -Juan Núñez de la Peña , historian (born 1641)
*August 13 -Jacques Lelong , French bibliographer (born1665 )
*September 18 -Matthew Prior , British poet and diplomat (born1664 )
*December 12 -Alexander Selkirk , the model for "Robinson Crusoe " (born1676 )
*"date unknown"
**Charlwood Lawton , Jacobite author
**Antoine Watteau , French painter
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