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
- Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter
- 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, part one
- John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq
- Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai
- 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
- Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
- Diego de Torres Villarroel
- *Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria
- *Historia de historias
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
- James Miller – The Man of Taste
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
- June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric
- October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician
- Unknown dates
- *Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician
- *James Ridley, English novelist and story writer
Deaths
- January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian
- February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher
- March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher
- April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer
- July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator
