1635 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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

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; Spain
• 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

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes