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
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 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