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.

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