1836 in poetry

Events

• November 6 - Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, having overexerted himself while helping put out a fire, dies just short of his 26th birthday of pneumonia in Litoměřice; his burial is held on the day of his intended wedding to Eleonora Šomková about a month after the birth of their child.
• The literary, social and political quarterly Sovremennik, edited by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. It publishes Fyodor Tyutchev's poetry and the fourth issue contains Pushkin's historical novel The Captain's Daughter.

  Works published in English

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• Bernard Barton and Lucy Barton, The Reliquary
• Walter Savage Landor, A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors
• Francis Sylvester Mahony, The Reliques of Father Prout, Irish poet
• Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories
• Catherine Eliza Richardson Grandmamma's Sampler; with Some Other Rhymes for Children
• William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, published in six volumes from this year to 1837 in poetry
• Lyra Apostolica, religious poetry anthology, including verse by John Henry Newman
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837

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• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Poetical Works, anti-slavery and descriptive poems, including "The Captured Slave" and "The Sunset Hour"; published posthumously
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Poems, early verse in the author's first poetry book, much of it humorous, such as "Ballad of the Oysterman" and "My Aunt", but other pieces with pathos, such as "The Last Leaf" and "Old Ironsides"
• John Greenleaf Whittier, "Mogg Megone", a critically well-received poem about Native Americans in Maine and the relationship of Indians and Catholic missionaries

  Works published in other languages

• Girolamo de Rada, Këngët e Milosaos, Arbëresh
• Andreas Munch, Ephemerer, Norwegian
• France Prešeren, The Baptism on the Savica, Slovene

  Births

• January 3 - Annie Hawks, American poet and hymnist
• January 15 - Frances Laughton Mace, American
• February 15 - Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保, Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period
• February 17 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
• June 22 - Annie Louisa Walker, English-born Canadian
• August 11 - Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, American
• August 25 - Bret Harte, American poet and writer
• September 4 - Marion Juliet Mitchell, American
• November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American
• November 18 - W. S. Gilbert, English comic poet and librettist
• November 28 - Amelia Denis de Icaza, Panamanian
• December 4 - Duncan MacGregor Crerar, Scottish
• December 14 - Frances Ridley Havergal, English religious poet and hymnwriter

  Deaths

• March 5 - William Taylor, English man of letters
• March 14 - John Mayne, Scottish-born poet, journalist and printer
• April 4 - John Grieve, Scottish
• August 20 - Agnes Bulmer, English poet
• October 17 - George Colman the Younger, English playwright and poet
• November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech