1610 in poetry

• Earliest extant manuscript of Prithviraj Raso discovered in Gujarat.

• Thomas Collins, The Penitent Publican{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• 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

• 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

• 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,Kang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xRNnU-SpDyYC&pg=PA267 Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism], p 267, Stanford University Press, 1999, {{ISBN|0-8047-3231-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8047-3231-4}}, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009 1633 according to another),Olsen, Kirsten, [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036 Chronology of Women's History], p 69, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, {{ISBN|0-313-28803-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-313-28803-6}}, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009 Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan

• 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

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