1721 in literature

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The year 1721 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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.

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 the Church of Scotland

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)

January 3 - Juan Núñez de la Peña, historian (born 1641)
August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665)
September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)
December 12 - Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe (born 1676)
date unknown
- Charlwood Lawton, Jacobite author
- Antoine Watteau, French painter

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