1736 in literature

1736 in literature

The year 1736 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Charles Rivington founds a company of booksellers known as the "New Conger".

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"

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"

Births

* May 10 - George Steevens, English Shakesperean commentator (died 1800)
* October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
* Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)

Deaths

* Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
* Nicholas Hawksmoor
* Barnaby Bernard Lintot, publisher and "bookseller" of literary works


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