1721 in 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 • Jonathan Swift: • The Bubble ==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 ==See also==