1736 in literature

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The year 1736 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Charles Rivington founds a company of booksellers known as the "New Conger".

New books

• Anonymous - The Life of Marianne (fiction, transl. 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
• Stephen Duck - Poems on Several Occasions
• Eliza Haywood - Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
• William Melmoth - Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
• Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab - Kitab at-tawhidt
• Isaac Newton - Method of Fluxions
• Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope vols. iii - iv
• Elizabeth 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

New drama

• Henry Carey - The Honest Yorkshireman
• Colley Cibber - Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
• Henry Fielding - Pasquin
• Aaron Hill - Alzira
• George Lillo - The Fatal Curiosity

Births

• May 10 - George Steevens, English Shakesperean commentator (died 1800)
• October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
• Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)

Deaths

• Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
• Nicholas Hawksmoor
• Barnaby Bernard Lintot, publisher and "bookseller" of literary works