1736 in poetry
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William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet, likely inspired by Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, painted about this year
1796 in poetry
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1736 in poetry
…July 1 – Annis Boudinot Stockton (died 1801), poet and sponsor of literary salons in Colonial New Jersey October 27 – James Macpherson (died 1796), Scottish poet Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (died 1789), Swedish poet…
The death room of Robert Burns