1736 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1736.

Events

Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.^[1]

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
Diego de Torres Villarroel
- Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria
- Historia de historias

May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
Unknown date
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803)
- James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765)

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)