1610 in poetry
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Events
- Earliest extant manuscript of Prithviraj Raso discovered in Gujarat.
Works
Great Britain
- Thomas Collins, The Penitent Publican[1]
- Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet, includes songs by John Dowland[1]
- Michael Drayton, A Heavenly Harmonie, new edition of The Harmonie of the Church, originally published in 1564[1]
- Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, Over, and After Death[1]
- Thomas Gainsford, The Vision and Discourse of Henry the Seventh[1]
- John Heath, Two Centuries of Epigrammes[1]
- Robert Jones, The Muses Gardin for Delights; or, The Fift Book of Ayres, songs[1]
- Richard Rich, Newes from Virginia[1]
- Roger Sharpe, More Fools Yet[1]
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.) â Sidney Godolphin (killed in action 1643), English
- July 4 â Paul Scarron (died 1660), French poet, playwright and novelist
- July 28 (bapt.) â Henry Glapthorne (died c. 1643), English dramatist and poet[1]
- 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,[2] 1633 according to another),[3] Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan.[3]
Deaths
- October 6 â Hosokawa Fujitaka ç´°å·è¤å, also known as Hosokawa YÅ«sai ç´°å·å¹½æ (born 1534), Japanese Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shÅguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan senior general; after the 1582 Incident at HonnÅ-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to "YÅ«sai" but remained an active force in politics, under ShÅguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Also â Yuan Hongdao è¢å®é (born 1568), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers