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.

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)
 * 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)