1736 in poetry

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

Colonial America

 * Mather Byles, To His Excellency governeur Belcher, on the Death of His lady. An Epistle. English Colonial America

United Kingdom

 * 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
 * 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, The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumes 3: fables, translations and imitations; Volume 4 includes The Dunciad (see also Works 1717, 1735 and 1737)
 * Elizabeth Rowe, The History of Joseph
 * James Thomson, last two parts of Liberty (see also Antient and Modern Italy; Greece; Rome 1735):
 * Britain, Part 4
 * The Prospect, Part 5, the last part

Other languages

 * 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:
 * 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
 * October 27 – James Macpherson (died 1796), Scottish poet
 * Also:
 * Charles Jenner
 * Johann Gottlieb Willamov (died 1777), German

Deaths
Birth years link 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