1721 in literature - Definition

See also: 1720 in literature, other events of 1721, 1722 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Lettres persanes (Persian Letters) by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
• Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium by Emanuel Swedenborg

Births

• March 19 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (died 1771)
• November 9 - Mark Akenside, poet
• William Collins (poet)

Deaths

• August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer
• September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)
• December 12 - Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe