1236 in poetry

Works

 * Lucas de Tuy and others, Chronicon Mundi ("Great Chronicle of the World")

Births

 * June 6 – Wen Tianxiang (died 1283), Chinese scholar-general, poet and chancellor
 * October – Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (died 1311), Persian polymath and poet

Deaths

 * Probable – Qul Ghali, Muslim Volga Bulgarian Old Tatar poet (born c. 1183)