- 1721 in poetry
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c=18th century
cf=19th centuryyp1=1718
yp2=1719
yp3=1720
year=1721
ya1=1722
ya2=1723
ya3=1724
dp3=1690s
dp2=1700s
dp1=1710s
d=1720s
da=0
dn1=1730s
dn2=1740s
dn3=1750s|Events
Works published
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Thomas Parnell , "Night-Piece on Death"
*Jonathan Swift , "Letter of Advice to a Young PoetBirths
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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)Deaths
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Matthew Prior , English poet, (born 1664)Grun, Bernard, "The Timetables of History", third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328]
*February 24 —John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby , English statesman and poet (born 1648)ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature Notes
* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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