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

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• 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, 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, English poet and miniature painter
• June 3 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist, poet, and librettist
• September 20 - Thomas Sprat, English bishop and poet

  Deaths

• March - Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist
• April 7 - Leonard Digges, English poet and translator
• April 25 - Alessandro Tassoni, Italian
• July 28 - Richard Corbet, English
• August 7 - Friedrich Spee, German Jesuit and poet
• August 27 - Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet
• October 18 - Jean de Schelandre, French
• Nef'i, Ottoman Turkish
• Shen Yixiu, Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaowan