1721 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|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

Notes

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Paul, Harry Gilbert, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vSobfr0UyF8C&q=Grounds+of+Criticism ''John Dennis: His Life and Criticism''], p 64, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
3. [[Mark Van Doren]], ''John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry'', p 178, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
4. [http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)"], article, ''The Burns Encyclopedia'', online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. 2009-07-21.
5. Thomas, Calvin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n9EPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22German+literature%22 ''A History of German Literature''], New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
6. Grun, Bernard, ''The Timetables of History'', third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328