1736 in poetry

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Events

Main article: 1736

Works published

William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet , likely inspired by Alexander Pope's The Dunciad , painted about this year

United Kingdom

• John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love, published anonymously ^[1]
• 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 ^[1]
• Mather Byles, To His Excellency Governor Belcher, on the Death of His lady. An Epistle. English Colonial America ^[2]
• William Dawson, Poems on Several Occasions, anonymously published; influenced by the style of Alexander Pope; English, Colonial America ^{[3] [4]}
• Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions ^[1]
• William Melmoth the Younger, Two Episodes of Horace Imitated ^[1]
• 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 (see also Works 1717, 1735 and 1737) ^[1]
• Elizabeth Rowe, The History of Joseph ^[1]
• James Thomson, last two parts of Liberty (see also Antient and Modern Italy; Greece; Rome 1735): ^[1]
  • Britain, Part 4 ^[1]
  • The Prospect, Part 5, the last part ^[1]

Other

• 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:

• May 1 – Charles Jenner (died 1774), English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric
• May 8 – Caterina Dolfin (died 1793), Venetian poet
• 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 ^[5]
• October 27 – James Macpherson (died 1796), Scottish poet
• Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (died 1789), Swedish poet
• Johann Gottlieb Willamov (died 1777), German

Deaths

Birth year links 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

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN   978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. • Amacher, Richard E. (June 21, 2006). "William Dawson". In Flora, Joseph M.; Vogel, Amber (eds.). Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Louisiana State University Press. p. 100. ISBN   978-0807131237 . Retrieved March 17, 2017.
5. Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN   978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009

• "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto