1721 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, edited by Thomas Tickell[1]
- John Dennis, Original Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism[2]
- Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism[3]
- Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company[1]
- Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death a notable work by one of the Graveyard poets
- Matthew Prior, Colin's Mistakes, published anonymously[1] (died this year)
- Allan Ramsay, Poems[4]
- Jonathan Swift:
- The Bubble[1]
- 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[5]
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[6] (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
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Paul, Harry Gilbert, John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 64, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
- ^ 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")
- ^ "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)", article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. 2009-07-21.
- ^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto