1721 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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