1736 in poetry

Works published

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• John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love, published anonymously
• 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
• Mather Byles, To His Excellency Governor Belcher, on the Death of His lady. An Epistle. English Colonial America
• William Dawson, Poems on Several Occasions, anonymously published; influenced by the style of Alexander Pope; English, Colonial America
• Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions
• William Melmoth the Younger, Two Episodes of Horace Imitated
• 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
• Elizabeth Rowe, The History of Joseph
• James Thomson, last two parts of Liberty :
• * Britain, Part 4
• * The Prospect, Part 5, the last part

Other

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Brief-Wechsel von der Natur des poetischen Geschmackes, German-language, published in Switzerland, criticism

Births

• May 1 - Charles Jenner, English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric
• May 8 - Caterina Dolfin, Venetian poet
• June 28 - Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
• July 1 - Annis Boudinot Stockton, poet and sponsor of literary salons in Colonial New Jersey
• October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet
• Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, Swedish poet
• Johann Gottlieb Willamov, German

Deaths

• Kada no Azumamaro 荷田春満, 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 intellectual movement
• Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator