1635 in poetry explained

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" ...^[1]
  • Philocothonista; or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized^[1]
• Francis Quarles, Emblemes^[1]
• Joseph Rutter, The Shepheard's Holy-Day: A pastorall tragi-comaedie^[1]
• 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^[1]

Other

• Gabriel Bocángel, Lira de las muses ("The Muses' Lyre"), containing both ballads and sonnets; Spain^[2]
• Jean Chapelain, De la poésie représentative, France
• Lope de Vega, Filis, eclogue, Spain
• Antoine Godeau, Discours sur la Poésie Chrétienne, France^[3]

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^[4]
• Shen Yixiu (born 1590), Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaowan^[5]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
2. Hamos, Andrea Warren, "Bocángel y Unzueta, Gabriel" inBleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1 p. 221. Retrieved from Google Books 2011-09-05.
3. Book: Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce. Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830). 308–309. Franklin, Burt. 1971. 978-0-8337-4046-5. 2010-02-11.
4. Book: Preminger, Alex . Brogan, T. V. F. . The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. registration . 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications. etal.
5. Book: Chang, Kang-i Sun. Kang-i Sun Chang. Saussy, Haun. Haun Saussy. Kwong, Charles Yim-tze . Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism. 267. Stanford University Press. 1999. 978-0-8047-3231-4.