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1721 in literature
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The year
1721 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
Contents
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Events
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New books
3
New drama
4
Births
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Deaths
Events
Around this time ("first" is debated),
inoculation
for
smallpox
began in England.
John Cleland
becomes a pupil at
Westminster School
and is soon expelled for an unknown offense.
Francis Atterbury
is arrested for plotting against the Hanoverian monarchy and being a "
Jacobite
".
The
South Sea Bubble
burst, with many losses of fortune, including
John Gay
, and there are increasing suspicions of complicity by
Robert 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
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An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company
Matthew Prior
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Colin's Mistakes
John Strype
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Ecclesiastical Memorials
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium
Jonathan Swift
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The Bubble
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A Letter to a Young Gentlleman, Lately Enter'd into Holy Orders
Thomas Tickell
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Kensington Garden
Robert Wodrow
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The History of the Sufferings of the
Church of Scotland
New drama
Colley Cibber
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The Refusal
Eliza Haywood
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The Fair Captive
John Mottley
-
Antiochus
Thomas Odell -
The Chimera
Edward Young
-
The Revenge
Births
March 19
-
Tobias Smollett
, Scottish physician and author (died
1771
)
November 9
-
Mark Akenside
, poet (died
1770
)
December 27
-
François Hemsterhuis
, moral philosopher (died
1790
)
date unknown
William Collins
, poet (died
1759
)
Johann Silberschlag
, theologian (died 1791)
Deaths
January 3
-
Juan Núñez de la Peña
, historian (born 1641)
August 13
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Jacques Lelong
, French bibliographer (born
1665
)
September 18
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Matthew Prior
, British poet and diplomat (born
1664
)
December 12
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Alexander Selkirk
, the model for
Robinson Crusoe
(born
1676
)
date unknown
Charlwood Lawton
, Jacobite author
Antoine Watteau
, French painter
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