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1610 in poetry

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

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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 shoguns; 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 Shoguns 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

    • References

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