1736 in poetry

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

Events

William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet, likely inspired by Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, painted about this year

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]
- Britain, Part 4^[1]
- The Prospect, Part 5, the last part^[1]

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

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

May 1 – Charles Jenner (died 1774), English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric
May 8 – Caterina Dolfin (died 1793), Venetian poet
June 28 – Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (died 1809), German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
July 1 – Annis Boudinot Stockton (died 1801), poet and sponsor of literary salons in Colonial New Jersey^[5]
October 27 – James Macpherson (died 1796), Scottish poet
Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (died 1789), Swedish poet
Johann Gottlieb Willamov (died 1777), German

Birth year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Kada no Azumamaro 荷田春満 (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 Keichū, co-founder of the kokugaku ("national studies") intellectual movement (surname: Kada)
Thomas Yalden (born 1670), English poet and translator

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
^ * Amacher, Richard E. (June 21, 2006). "William Dawson". In Flora, Joseph M.; Vogel, Amber (eds.). Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Louisiana State University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0807131237. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009

[1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto