1721 in poetry
# 1721 in poetry

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## Works published

### United Kingdom

* Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, edited by Thomas Tickell
* John Dennis, Original Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism
* Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism
* Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company
* Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death a notable work by one of the Graveyard poets
* Matthew Prior, Colin's Mistakes, published anonymously (died this year)
* Allan Ramsay, Poems
* Jonathan Swift:
   * The Bubble
   * Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
* Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1722" (see also Joseph Addison, above)

### Other

* Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Earthly Pleasure in God, Germany

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* March 17 – James Dance, pseudonym of James Dance (died 1774), English poet, playwright, actor and cricketer
* March 19 – Tobias Smollett (died 1771), Scottish-born physician, novelist and poet
* July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (died 1781), German poet
* August 21 – Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken (died 1789), Dutch poet and playwright
* September 17 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (died 1793), German poet
* October 5 – William Wilkie (died 1772), Scottish poet and agriculturalist
* November 9 – Mark Akenside (died 1770), English poet
* December 25 – William Collins (died 1759), English poet
* date not known
   * James Grainger (died 1766), Scottish-born physician, poet and translator
   * Robert Potter (died 1804), English translator, poet and cleric

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* September 18 – Matthew Prior (born 1664), English poet (see "Works", above)
* February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (born 1648), English statesman and poet
* date not known – Rupa Bhavani (born 1621), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
