1736 in literature
# 1736 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1736.

## Events

* Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.

## New books

### Prose

* Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux)
* Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
* John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love
* Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
* Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco
* Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion
* Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde
* William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
* Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind), part one
* John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq
* Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
* Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt
* Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
* Elizabeth Singer Rowe – The History of Joseph
* William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra
* James Thomson – Britain
* William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before)
* Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
* Diego de Torres Villarroel
   * Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory)
   * Historia de historias

### Drama

* Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman
* Colley Cibber – Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
* Mr. Connolly – The Connoisseur
* Elizabeth Cooper – The Nobleman
* Henry Fielding – Pasquin
* Aaron Hill –
   * Alzira
   * Zara
* Samuel Johnson – All Alive and Merry
* James Sterling – The Parricide

### Poems

* Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Occasions
* William Melmoth – Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
* Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope vols iii–iv
* Voltaire – Le Mondain

## Births

* May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
* June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812)
* October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
* Unknown dates
   * Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803)
   * James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765)

## Deaths

* January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657)
* February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
* March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
* April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
* July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670)
