1835 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- November/December - The Federal Convention in Germany prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.
Works
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- Robert Browning, Paracelsus
- John Clare, The Rural Muse
- William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper, edited by Robert Southey, 15 volumes published this year through 1837; posthumously published
- George Darley, Nepenthe
- Thomas De Quincey, two essays in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine on the Lake Poets, a fourth installment on Samuel Taylor Coleridge in January
- Leigh Hunt, Captain Sword and Captain Pen
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", The Vow of the Peacock and Other Poems
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836
- Thomas Moore, The Fudges in England
- William Wordsworth, ''Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems''
Other in English
- Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, posthumously published; the author, who died in 1820, had ordered his wife to destroy the manuscripts of what he called "trifles in rhyme" after his death, but she refused; contains the author's most popular pieces, including the title poem and "The American Flag"
Works published in other languages
- Franz Grillparzer, Tristia ex Ponto, Austria
- Victor Hugo, Les Chants du crépuscule, France
- Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, "old" version, Finland
- Karl August Nicander, Hesperider, Sweden
- Frederik Paludan-Müller, Zuleimasflugt, Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 4
- *Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, English poet in India
- *Lucy H. Washington, American poet and social reformer
- March 1 - John James Platt, American
- March 28 - Mary H. Gray Clarke, American poet, author, correspondent
- April 17 - Augusta Cooper Bristol, American
- April 26 - John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, English
- May 3 - Alfred Austin, English poet laureate
- June 15 - Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet
- June 17 - James Brunton Stephens, Scottish-born Australian
- June 29 - Celia Thaxter, American
- November 11 - Matthías Jochumsson, Icelandic lyric poet, playwright, translator and pastor
- December 4 - Samuel Butler, English novelist and poet
- December 13 - Phillips Brooks, American hymnwriter
- Date not known:
- * Isidore Gordon Ascher, Scottish-born Canadian
- * Ellen Johnston, "the factory girl", Scottish power loom weaver and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 25 - Friederike Brun, Danish poet
- April 14 - Joseph Grant, Scottish poet
- May 16 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, English poet
- November 1 - William Motherwell, Scottish poet
- November 21 - James Hogg, Scottish poet and novelist, "the Ettrick shepherd"
- December 25 - Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish poet, "last of the wandering bards"