1736 in literature
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The year 1736 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Charles Rivington founds a company of booksellers known as the "New Conger".
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - The Life of Marianne (fiction, transl. of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaus)
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- May 10 - George Steevens, English Shakesperean commentator (died 1800)
- October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)
[edit] Deaths
- Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- Barnaby Bernard Lintot, publisher and "bookseller" of literary works

