1636 in poetry

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• Richard Brathwaite, The Fatall Nuptiall; or, Mournefull Marriage, anonymously published{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6}}
• John Saltmarsh, Poemata sacra
• Wye Saltonstall, Ovids Heroicall Epistles, translated from the Latin of Ovid's {{lang|la|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){{cite book|last=Clark|first=Alexander Frederick Bruce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9385ZgRwSy4C&dq=Beaumont+%22Concerning+the+True+Form+of+English%22&pg=PA408|title=Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830)|pages=308–309|publisher=Franklin, Burt|year=1971|isbn=978-0-8337-4046-5|via=Google Books|accessdate=2010-02-11}}

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

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

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