1636 in poetry

Works published

• Richard Brathwaite, The Fatall Nuptiall; or, Mournefull Marriage, anonymously published
• John Saltmarsh, Poemata sacra
• Wye Saltonstall, Ovids Heroicall Epistles, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Epistolae heriodum
• Longinus, On the Sublime, an edition (not in English) by Gerard Langbaine at Oxford; a widely known edition; Ancient Greek criticism; twice reprinted before 1551 (see John Hall's translation, the first into English, 1652; and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's influential translation into French in 1674)

Births

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

• January 1 – Jacques Cassagne (died 1679), French clergyman, poet and moralist
• April 7 – Gregório de Matos, (died 1696), Brazilian Baroque poet
• November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (died 1711), French poet and critic
• Also:
  • Jean de Montigny (died 1671), French poet and philosopher
  • Thomas Traherne, born this year or in 1637 (died 1674), English poet and religious writer

Deaths

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

• January 19 – Daniel Schwenter (born 1585), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet and librarian
• August 25 – Bhai Gurdas (born 1551), Punjabi Sikh scholar, poet and scribe of the Adi Granth

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce. (1971). "Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830)". Franklin, Burt.