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1721 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1721.

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Events

  • John Cleland becomes a pupil at Westminster School and is soon expelled for an unknown offense.
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduces the Ottoman Turkish method of inoculation against smallpox – variolation – to London; the Princess of Wales is persuaded to test the treatment and the procedure becomes fashionable.
  • Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death is published, inaugurating the "Graveyard poets" movement.

    • Prose

  • 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 English 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
  • John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of the most noble John Sheffield, late Duke of Buckingham, published by His Grace in his life time
  • Emanuel Swedenborg – Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium
  • Jonathan Swift
  • The Bubble
  • A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter'd into Holy Orders
  • Thomas Tickell – Kensington Garden
  • Robert Wodrow – The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland
  • Diego de Torres Villarroel – Pronósticos

    • 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 novelist (died 1771)
  • November 9 – Mark Akenside, English poet (died 1770)
  • November 16 – Johann Silberschlag, German theologian (died 1791)
  • December 25 – William Collins, English poet (died 1759)
  • December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch moral philosopher (died 1790)
  • Unknown date – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (died 1804)

    • Deaths

  • January 3 – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (born 1641)
  • June 18 – Charlwood Lawton, English Jacobite author (born 1660)
  • August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665)
  • September 18 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (born 1664)
  • October 14 – Jean Palaprat, French dramatist (born 1650)
  • Unknown date – Edward Howard, English playwright and poet (born 1624)

    • References

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