1621 in literature

Events from the year 1621 in literature. Events January 27 – Sir Francis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban. February 3 – John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton telling him the anonymous author of the tract Vox Populi has been revealed to be the radical preacher Thomas Scott. May 3 – Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London after being convicted of receiving bribes, but pardoned by King James I later in the year. August 26 – Barten Holyday's allegorical play Technogamia, originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before James I at Woodstock Palace. He dislikes it, but is persuaded to stay to the end for the student actors' sakes. September 24 – The earliest known copy of the Corante, generally regarded as the first English newspaper, is published. November 22 – The English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. December 30 – The Spanish writer Francisco de Borja y Aragón is replaced as Viceroy of Peru by Juan Jiménez de Montalvo, and embarks for home on the following day. Uncertain date Jeremias Drexel gives up preaching in order to write a biography of Elisabeth of Lorraine. New books