1630 in literature

The year 1630 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.

New books

• Johann Heinrich Alsted - Encyclopaedia
• Thomas Dekker - London Look Back
• Thomas Randolph - Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher and The Conceited Pedlar (in one volume)

New drama

• Anonymous - Pathomachia (published)
• John Clavell - The Soddered Citizen
• Sir William Davenant - The Cruel Brother and The Just Italian (published)
• Thomas Dekker - The Honest Whore, Part 2 (published)
• Philip Massinger - The Picture & The Renegado (published)
• Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza - Cada loco con su tema o el montañés indiano
• Thomas Middleton - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (published)
• Thomas Randolph
• Aristippus
• Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry

Poetry

• Diana Primrose - A Chain of Pearl
• John Taylor - All the Works of John Taylor the Water Poet

Births

• February 28 - Matthias Tanner, theologian (died 1692)
• November 24 - Étienne Baluze, general author (died 1718)
• date unknown - Noel Alexandre, theologian (died 1724)
• date unknown - Isaac Barrow, theologian and mathematician (died 1677)
• date unknown - Kaibara Ekken, philosopher (died 1714)
• date unknown - Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and author (died 1702)
• date unknown - Thomas Tanner, clergyman and writer (died 1682)

Deaths

• April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, Protestant poet (born 1552)
• date unknown - Gabriel Harvey, poet and author (born c.1545)
• date unknown - John Heminges, actor and co-editor of the First Folio (born c.1556)
• date unknown - Charles Malapert, Jesuit writer (born 1581)
• date unknown - Samuel Rowlands, pamphleteer (born c.1573)