1721 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724
Years in literature:	1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724
Decades in poetry:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
Centuries in poetry:	17th century 18th century 19th century
Centuries:	17th century · 18th century · 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 Notes

[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

• Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death
• Jonathan Swift, Letter of Advice to a Young Poet

[edit] Births

• July 9 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (died 1781)
• November 9 — Mark Akenside (died 1770, British poet
• December 25 — William Collins (died 1759), English poet
• James Grainger
• Tobias Smollett
• William Wilkie (Scotland)

[edit] Deaths

• Matthew Prior, English poet, (born 1664)^[1]
• February 24 — John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (born 1648)

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

[edit] Notes

1. ^ 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