1610 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Earliest extant manuscript of Prithviraj Raso discovered in Gujarat.
Works
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Thomas Collins, The Penitent Publican
- Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet, includes songs by John Dowland
- Michael Drayton, A Heavenly Harmonie, new edition of The Harmonie of the Church, originally published in 1564
- Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, Over, and After Death
- Thomas Gainsford, The Vision and Discourse of Henry the Seventh
- John Heath, Two Centuries of Epigrammes
- Robert Jones, The Muses Gardin for Delights; or, The Fift Book of Ayres, songs
- Richard Rich, Newes from Virginia
- Roger Sharpe, ''More Fools Yet''
Other
- Gaspar Perez de Villagra, Historia de la Nueva Mexico, regarded as the first drama and the first epic poem of European origin generated in the present United States
Births
- January 15 ' - Sidney Godolphin, English
- July 4 - Paul Scarron, French poet, playwright and novelist
- July 28 ' - Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist and poet
- Also:
- * Jeremias de Dekker, birth year uncertain, Dutch
- * Mehmed IV Giray, poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
- * Ye Wanwan, Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan
Deaths
- October 6 - Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎, Japanese Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shōguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to "Yūsai" but remained an active force in politics, under Shōguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Also - Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道, Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers