1737 in poetry

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

Events

 * Samuel Johnson and David Garrick leave Lichfield for London.

Great Britain

 * Henry Carey, The Musical Century, in One Hundred English Ballads, with Carey's musical settings
 * Stephen Duck, The Vision, on the November 20 death of Queen Caroline
 * Richard Glover, Leonidas, in nine books (expanded to 12 in 1770)
 * Matthew Green, The Spleen, has been called his chief poem; with a preface by his friend Richard Glover (see also, "Deaths" below)
 * Alexander Pope:
 * Horace His Ode to Venus
 * The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
 * Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of his Friends, the first authorized edition (see Letters of Mr Pope and Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence, both 1735)
 * The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
 * The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumes 5 and 6, letters (see also Works 1717, 1735, 1736
 * Allan Ramsay, co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the last of four volumes, with the first volume published in 1724
 * William Shenstone, Poems Upon Various Occasions, published anonymously; includes the earliest version of "The School-mistress", with 12 stanzas (expanded version in 28 stanzas published separately in 1742, the final version in 35 stanzas published in Volume 1 of Dodsley's Collection of Poems 1748)
 * Jonathan Swift, Poems on Several Occasions
 * John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns

Other languages

 * Biographies, criticism, scholarship
 * Ignacio de Luzán Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea, Poética, work of criticism that gives classic rules in Spanish literary composition

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 3 – Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (died 1823), German poet and critic
 * Joseph Mather
 * Elizabeth Graeme Fegusson (died 1801), poet and sponsor of literary salons; Colonial America

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Abel Evans (born 1679), English clergyman, academic, and poet
 * Ignjat Đurđević (born 1675), Croatian poet and translator
 * Matthew Green (born 1696); English (see "Works" above)
 * Elizabeth Rowe (born 1674) English novelist, playwright and poet
 * Vakhtang VI of Kartli (born 1675), Kartli statesman, legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet