1721 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• John Cleland becomes a pupil at Westminster School.
• Francis Atterbury is arrested for plotting against the Hanoverian monarchy.

[edit] New books

• Penelope Aubin - The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family
• Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu - Lettres persanes (Persian Letters)

[edit] New drama

• Colley Cibber - The Refusal

[edit] Non-fiction

• Emanuel Swedenborg - Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium
• Jonathan Swift - The Drapier's Letters

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

• 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