1736 in poetry
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Events
Works published
United Kingdom
- John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love, published anonymously[1]
- Isaac Hawkins Browne the elder, A Pipe of Tobacco, anonymously published, imitating Colly Cibber, Ambrose Philips, James Thomson, Edward Young, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift[1]
- Mather Byles, To His Excellency Governor Belcher, on the Death of His lady. An Epistle. English Colonial America[2]
- William Dawson, Poems on Several Occasions, anonymously published; influenced by the style of Alexander Pope; English, Colonial America[3][4]
- Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions[1]
- William Melmoth the Younger, Two Episodes of Horace Imitated[1]
- Alexander Pope
- Bounce to Fop: An heroick epistle from a dog at Twickenham to a dog at court
- The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumes 3: fables, translations and imitations; Volume 4 includes The Dunciad (see also Works 1717, 1735 and 1737)[1]
- Elizabeth Rowe, The History of Joseph[1]
- James Thomson, last two parts of Liberty (see also Antient and Modern Italy; Greece; Rome 1735):[1]
Other
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Brief-Wechsel von der Natur des poetischen Geschmackes ("Exchange of letters on the nature of poetic taste"), German-language, published in Switzerland, criticism
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 1 â Charles Jenner (died 1774), English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric
- May 8 â Caterina Dolfin (died 1793), Venetian poet
- June 28 â Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (died 1809), German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
- July 1 â Annis Boudinot Stockton (died 1801), poet and sponsor of literary salons in Colonial New Jersey[5]
- October 27 â James Macpherson (died 1796), Scottish poet
- Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (died 1789), Swedish poet
- Johann Gottlieb Willamov (died 1777), German
Deaths
Birth year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Kada no Azumamaro è·ç°æ¥æº (born 1669), Japanese early Edo period poet, philologist and teacher as well as poetry tutor to one of the sons of Emperor Reigen; together with KeichÅ«, co-founder of the kokugaku ("national studies") intellectual movement (surname: Kada)
- Thomas Yalden (born 1670), English poet and translator
