1636 in poetry
# 1636 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## 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
