1836 in poetry

Events

• 6 November - The burial of Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child. Mácha had overexerted himself in helping put out a fire and died the previous day in Litoměřice just before his 26th birthday.
• The literary, social and political quarterly Sovremennik, edited by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. It publishes Fyodor Tyutchev's poetry and the fourth issue contains Pushkin's historical novel The Captain's Daughter.

Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Bernard Barton and Lucy Barton, The Reliquary
• Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover", as "Porphyria" in January issue of Monthly Repository
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, dated 1837
• Walter Savage Landor, A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors
• Francis Sylvester Mahony, The Reliques of Father Prout, Irish poet
• Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories
• Catherine Eliza Richardson Grandmamma's Sampler; with Some Other Rhymes for Children
• William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, published in six volumes from this year to 1837 Lyra Apostolica, religious poetry anthology, including verse by John Henry Newman

United States">American poetry">United States

• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Poetical Works, anti-slavery and descriptive poems, including "The Captured Slave" and "The Sunset Hour"; published posthumously
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poems, early verse in the author's first poetry book, much of it humorous, such as "Ballad of the Oysterman" and "My Aunt", but other pieces with pathos, such as "The Last Leaf" and "Old Ironsides"
• John Greenleaf Whittier, "Mogg Megone", a critically well-received poem about Native Americans in Maine and the relationship of Indians and Catholic missionaries

Works published in other languages

• Girolamo de Rada, Këngët e Milosaos, Arbëresh
• Andreas Munch, Ephemerer, Norwegian
• France Prešeren, The Baptism on the Savica , Slovene

Births

• 3 January - Annie Hawks, American poet and hymnist
• 15 January - Frances Laughton Mace, American
• 15 February - Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保, Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period
• 17 February - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
• 22 June - Annie Louisa Walker, English and Canadian poet and novelist
• 11 August - Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, American
• 25 August - Bret Harte, American poet and writer
• 4 September - Marion Juliet Mitchell, American
• 11 November - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and editor
• 18 November - W. S. Gilbert, English comic poet and librettist
• 28 November - Amelia Denis de Icaza, Panamanian
• 4 December - Duncan MacGregor Crerar, Scottish
• 14 December - Frances Ridley Havergal, English religious poet and hymnwriter

Deaths

• 9 January - Pierre François Lacenaire, French poet and criminal, double murderer
• 5 March - William Taylor, English man of letters
• 14 March - John Mayne, Scottish-born poet, journalist and printer
• 4 April - John Grieve, Scottish businessman and poet
• 20 August - Agnes Bulmer, English religious and epic poet
• 17 October - George Colman the Younger, English playwright and poet
• 5 November - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech romantic poet