1736 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1736.

## Events

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

## New books

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### Prose

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* 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

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* 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

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Main article: 1736 in poetry

* 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

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* 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

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* 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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1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rivington, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48\. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. ^ Vincent, Benjamin (1877) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" A Dictionary of Biography, Past and Present: Containing the chief events in the lives of eminent persons of all ages and nations Ward, Lock, & Co., London

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