1835 in poetry

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

• January 4 - Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, English poet in India
• 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:
• * Isodore Gordon Ascher, Canadian
• * John James Platt, American

  Deaths

• 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"