1721 in literature

none 1721 literature poetry July 2020 This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1721. Events February – Joseph A. Hall's book, A Sober Reply to Mr. Higgs' Merry Arguments from the Light of Nature for the Tritheistic Doctrine of the Trinity..., published in the previous year, is burned by order of the British House of Lords for ridiculing Christian doctrine.Jonathon Green Nicholas J. Karolides Encyclopedia of Censorship https://books.google.com/books?id=bunHURgi7FcC&pg=PA67 14 May 2014 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-1001-1 67 unknown dates John Cleland becomes a pupil at Westminster School; at first an exemplary student, he would eventually be expelled for an unknown offence.Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=i8ZkAAAAMAAJ 1999 Gale Research Company 978-0-7876-3263-2 123 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduces to London the Ottoman Turkish method of inoculation against smallpox – variolation. The Princess of Wales is persuaded to test the treatment and it becomes fashionable.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 registration https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will Grundy Isobel Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19029 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 2011-09-27 Case Christine L. Chung King-Thom https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tETsMxkPg7QJ:www.skylinecollege.edu/case/biol675/docs/Montagu-Jenner.pdf+montagu+jenner&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESheiyFKQXN2vyI9BDDW66Op1GXxLunxAoQS7sETikw62IkomUn8S6cRNXMMCwAmO2bSUmyFY0zgbPf4QJ-_uS9c8KGMK0gxJ28J_X5Sptv_o7NOhNQD2jafb6orvvpskJcTdM2_&sig=AHIEtbSpi5O-Y4HaJ-MzOQ6MmJOE55rGzg&pli=1 Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox SIM News 47 2 58–60 1997 2011-09-27Jennifer Lee Carrell The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox New York Dutton 2003 0-525-94736-1 registration https://archive.org/details/speckledmonsterh00carr_0 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 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 John Strype – Ecclesiastical Memorials 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 Diego de Torres Villarroel – Pronósticos Robert Wodrow – The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland Drama Colley Cibber – The Refusal Eliza Haywood – The Fair Captive Aaron Hill – Fatal Extravagance John Mottley – Antiochus Thomas Odell – The Chimera Edward Young – The Revenge Poetry 1721 in 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)David Stoker Potter, Robert (1721–1804) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22618 2010-09-05 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)Gleanings Gleanings from the sacred poets, with biogr. notices of the authors https://books.google.com/books?id=TRIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA79 1875 79 October 14 – Jean Palaprat, French dramatist (born 1650)Madame Du Noyer (Anne Marguerite Petit) The Correspondence of Madame Du Noyer https://books.google.com/books?id=8E1BAAAAIAAJ 1890 R. Bentley & son 10 References 30em