1. Events

2. New books
    Prose  Drama  Poetry 

3. Births

4. Deaths

5. References

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

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.^[1][2][3][4]
• Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death is published, inaugurating the "Graveyard poets" movement.

New books

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 (translation)
• 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
• Edward Young – The Revenge

Poetry

Births

• March 19 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1771)
• August 21 – Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1789)
• 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)^[5]

Deaths

• January 3 – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (born 1641)
• January 26 – Pierre Daniel Huet, French scholar and bishop (born 1630)
• 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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• Western Reformed Seminary
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• Western Regional Advocacy Project
• Western Region Football League
• Western Region of British Rail
• Western Region of Ghana
• Western Religion
• Western Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)
• Western Report
• Western Reserve
• Western Reserve (disambiguation)
• Western Reserve Eclectic Institute