1735 in poetry

Events

• Alexander Pope acknowledges authorship of An Essay on Man.

Works published

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• James Logan, ' 'Cato's Moral Distichs' ', a verse translation, printed by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it the first translation of a classic work both created and printed in English Colonial America
• Jane Colman Turell, Reliquiate Turellae et Lachrymae Paternal, includes letters, diary extracts, short religious essays and pious verse

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• Joseph Addison, translator, The works of Anacreon translated into English verse with notes explanatory and poetical to which are added odes, fragments, and epigrams of Sappho with the original Greek plac’d opposite to the translation by Mr. Addison, London: Printed by John Watts
• Jane Brereton, Merlin, published anonymously "By a lady"
• Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty
• Robert Dodsley, Beauty; or, The Art of Charming, published anonymously
• John Hughes, Poems on Several Occasions
• Hildebrand Jacob:
• * Brutus the Trojan, Founder of the British Empire
• * The Works of Hildebrand Jacob
• Samuel Johnson, translator, A Voyage to Abyssinia, translated from Jeronymo Lobo
• William Melmoth, the younger, Of Active and Retired Life, published anonymously
• Alexander Pope:
• * An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot, published January 2, although the book states "1734"
• * Of the Characters of Women, the second of Pope's "Moral Essays"
• * The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 2, works printed for the first time in this volume include "The Author to the Reader", "The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne", "On Charles Earl of Dorset", "On Mr. Elijah Fenton"
• * Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, an unauthorized edition brought out by Curll
• * Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734, first three volumes published this year, called "Volume the First", etc.
• Richard Savage, The Progress of a Divine
• William Somervile, The Chace
• Jonathan Swift:
• * And others, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth, anonymous editor; an anthology; "Completes" the previous four Miscellanies volumes
• * The Works of Jonathan Swift, the first authorized edition
• James Thomson, Liberty, consisting of Part I: Antient and Modern Italy Compared, Part 2: Greece, Part 3: ''Rome''

Other

• Vasily Trediakovsky, Новый и краткий способъ къ сложенью российскихъ стиховъ, a work of critical theory for which he is most remembered; it first introduced to Russian literature discussion of such poetic genres as the sonnet, the rondeau, the madrigal, and the ode

Births

• February 3 - Ignacy Krasicki, Enlightenment poet, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek
• March - John Langhorne, English poet and clergyman best known for his work on translating Plutarch's Lives
• April 18 bapt. - James Woodhouse, English shoemaker poet
• October 25 - James Beattie, Scottish scholar and writer

Deaths

• April 5 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader
• October 25 - Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, English
• Jane Turell, English Colonial America, daughter of Benjamin Colman