1736 in literature
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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.[1]
New books
Prose
- Anonymous â The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux)
- Joseph Addison â The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
- John Armstrong â The Oeconomy of Love
- Thomas Bayes â 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 â A Pipe of Tobacco
- Joseph Butler â Analogy of Religion
- Thomas Carte â Life of James Duke of Ormonde
- William Rufus Chetwood â The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon â Les Ãgarements du cÅur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind), part one
- John Gyles â Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq
- Eliza Haywood â Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
- Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab â Kitab at-tawhidt
- Isaac Newton â Method of Fluxions
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe â The History of Joseph
- William Stukeley â Palaeographia Sacra
- James Thomson â Britain
- William Warburton â The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before)
- Leonard Welsted â 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 â The Honest Yorkshireman
- Colley Cibber â Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
- Mr. Connolly â The Connoisseur
- Elizabeth Cooper â The Nobleman
- Henry Fielding â Pasquin
- Aaron Hill â
- Alzira
- Zara
- Samuel Johnson â All Alive and Merry
- James Sterling â The Parricide
Poems
- Stephen Duck â Poems on Several Occasions
- William Melmoth â Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
- Alexander Pope â The Works of Alexander Pope vols iiiâiv
- Voltaire â Le Mondain
Births
- May 10 â George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
- June 25 â John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812)
- October 27 â 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 â Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657)[2]
- February 9 â Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
- March 18 â Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
- April 30 â Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
- July 16 â Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670)