1636 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Richard Brathwaite, The Fatall Nuptiall; or, Mournefull Marriage, anonymously published
• Wye Saltonstall, Ovids Heroicall Epistles, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Heroides
• Longinus, On the Sublime, an edition by Gerard Langbaine at Oxford; a widely known edition; Ancient Greek criticism; twice reprinted before 1551

  Births

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

  Deaths

• January 19 - Daniel Schwenter, German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet and librarian
• August 25 - Bhai Gurdas, Punjabi Sikh scholar, poet and scribe of the Adi Granth