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 – 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)[2]
- 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)
References
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