1835 in poetry

Events

• November/December – The Federal Convention in Germany prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.

Works

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Robert Browning, Paracelsus (reprinted in Poems 1849)
• John Clare, The Rural Muse
• William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper, edited by Robert Southey, 15 volumes published this year through 1837; posthumously published
• George Darley, Nepenthe
• Thomas De Quincey, two essays in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine on the Lake Poets, a fourth installment on Samuel Taylor Coleridge in January (first installments, which inaugurated the series, in September through November 1834; an essay on William Wordsworth in August (see also Recollections 1839, 1840)
• Leigh Hunt, Captain Sword and Captain Pen
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", The Vow of the Peacock and Other Poems
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836
• Thomas Moore, The Fudges in England (also see The Fudge Family in Paris 1818)
• William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

Other in English

• Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, posthumously published; the author, who died in 1820, had ordered his wife to destroy the manuscripts of what he called "trifles in rhyme" after his death, but she refused; contains the author's most popular pieces, including the title poem and "The American Flag"

Works published in other languages

• Franz Grillparzer, Tristia ex Ponto, Austria
• Victor Hugo, Les Chants du crépuscule, France
• Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, "old" version, Finland
• Karl August Nicander, Hesperider, Sweden
• Frederik Paludan-Müller, Zuleimasflugt ("Zuleima's Flight"), Denmark

Births

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

• January 4
  • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (died 1911), English poet in India
  • Lucy H. Washington (died 1913), American poet and social reformer
• March 1 – John James Platt (died 1917), American
• March 28 – Mary H. Gray Clarke (died 1892), American poet, author, correspondent
• April 17 – Augusta Cooper Bristol (died 1910), American
• April 26 – John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (died 1895), English
• May 3 – Alfred Austin (died 1913), English poet laureate
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken (died 1868), American actress, painter and poet
• June 17 – James Brunton Stephens (died 1902), Scottish-born Australian
• June 29 – Celia Thaxter (died 1894), American
• November 11 – Matthías Jochumsson (died 1920), Icelandic lyric poet, playwright, translator and pastor
• December 4 – Samuel Butler (died 1902), English novelist and poet
• December 13 – Phillips Brooks (died 1893), American hymnwriter
• Date not known:
  • Isidore Gordon Ascher (died 1914), Scottish-born Canadian
  • Ellen Johnston, "the factory girl" (died 1874), Scottish power loom weaver and poet

Deaths

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

• March 25 – Friederike Brun, Danish poet (born 1765)
• April 14 – Joseph Grant, Scottish poet (born 1805)
• May 16 – Felicia Dorothea Hemans, English poet (born 1793)
• November 1 – William Motherwell, Scottish poet (born 1797)
• November 21 – James Hogg, Scottish poet and novelist, "the Ettrick shepherd" (born 1770)
• December 25 – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish poet, "last of the wandering bards" (born 1779)

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
3. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. 978-0-14-042385-3