1610 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Earliest extant manuscript of Prithviraj Raso discovered in Gujarat.

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 (bapt.) – Sidney Godolphin (killed in action 1643), English
 * July 4 – Paul Scarron (died 1660), French poet, playwright and novelist
 * July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne (died c. 1643), English dramatist and poet
 * Also:
 * Jeremias de Dekker, birth year uncertain (died 1666), Dutch
 * Mehmed IV Giray (died 1674), poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
 * Ye Wanwan (died 1632, according to one source, 1633 according to another), 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 (born 1534), 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 (born 1568), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers