1610 in literature

The year 1610 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new Bodleian.

New books

• Jean Beguin – Tyrocinium Chymicum
• Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• John Healey – his translation of St Augustine of Hippo's The City of God
• Sylvester Jourdan – A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels
• Charles Loyseau - Traité des ordres et simples dignités
• Richard Rich – News from Virginia: the Lost Flock Triumphant

New drama

• Samuel Daniel – Tethys Festival or the Queenes Wake (masque)
• John Fletcher – The Faithful Shepherdess
• Ben Jonson – The Alchemist; The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers
• John Marston – Histriomastix published
• John Mason – The Turk published

Poetry

• Giles Fletcher the younger – Christ's Victory and Triumph

Births

• January – Sir Sidney Godolphin, English poet (died 1643)
• April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, soldier, critic and essayist (died 1703)
• July 4 – Paul Scarron, poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660)
• July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (died c.1643)
• December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
• date unknown
  • Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier (died 1711)
  • Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (died 1654)
  • Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
  • Li Yu, controversial comic writer (died 1680)
  • Louis Maimbourg, historian (died 1686)
  • François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
  • Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
• probable – Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)

Deaths

• July – Richard Knolles, historian (born c. 1545)
• November 28 – Lorenzo Scupoli, theologian (born c.1530)
• date unknown
  • Anne Bacon, English translator (born c. 1528)
  • Adam Berg, printer and publisher (born 1540)
  • Georgios Chortatzis, verse dramatist (born c.1545)
  • Nikola Vitov Gučetić, philosopher and science writer (born 1549)
  • Yuan Hongdao, poet (born 1568)
• probable
  • Peter Bales, inventor of shorthand (born 1547)
  • Alexander Montgomerie, poet (born c. 1545)
  • Philip Stubbs, pamphleteer (born c. 1555)