1635 in poetry

Events

• August 27 – Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega dies aged 72 of scarlet fever in Madrid. This year also his illegitimate son Lope Félix, another poet, is drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Venezuela and his youngest daughter Antonia Clara is abducted.
• Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses.

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Thomas Heywood:
  • The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, has the much-quoted passage "Mellifluous Shakes-peare, whose inchanting Quill/Commanded Mirth or Passion" ...
  • Philocothonista; or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized
• Francis Quarles, Emblemes
• Joseph Rutter, The Shepheard's Holy-Day: A pastorall tragi-comaedie
• George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, with emblems printed from engravings originally produced by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus Emblematorum 1611–1613

Other

• Gabriel Bocángel, Lira de las muses ("The Muses' Lyre"), containing both ballads and sonnets; SpainHamos, Andrea Warren, "Bocángel y Unzueta, Gabriel" in Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1 p. 221. Retrieved from Google Books 2011-09-05.
• Jean Chapelain, De la poésie représentative, France
• Lope de Vega, Filis, eclogue, Spain
• Antoine Godeau, Discours sur la Poésie Chrétienne, France

Births

• February 21 – Thomas Flatman (died 1688), English poet and miniature painter
• June 3 – Philippe Quinault (died 1688), French dramatist, poet, and librettist
• September 20 (bapt.) – Thomas Sprat (died 1713), English bishop and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March – Thomas Randolph (born 1605), English poet and dramatist
• April 7 – Leonard Digges (born 1588), English poet and translator
• April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni (born 1565), Italian
• July 28 – Richard Corbet (born 1582), English
• August 7 – Friedrich Spee (born 1591), German Jesuit and poet
• August 27 – Lope de Vega (born 1562), Spanish playwright and poet
• October 18 – Jean de Schelandre (born c. 1585), French
• Nef'i (born 1582?), Ottoman Turkish
• Shen Yixiu (born 1590), Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaowan

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce. (1971). "Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830)". Franklin, Burt.
3. (1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics".
4. (1999). "Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism". Stanford University Press.