1610 in poetry explained

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.

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.)  - 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^[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  - 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6.
2. [Kang-i Sun Chang]
3. Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 69, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994,,, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009