1620 in poetry
This article covers 1620 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
- Thomas Dekker, Dekker his Dreame
- Sir Thomas Overbury, The First and Second Part of the Remedy of Love, translated from Ovid, Remedia amoris; published posthumously
- Henry Peacham the younger, Thalias Banquet: Furnished with an hundred and odde dishes of newly devised epigrammes
- Francis Quarles, A Feast of Wormes: Set forth in a poem of the history of Jonah
- Samuel Rowlands, ''The Night-Raven''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 5 - Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian and Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet
- July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
- Also:
- * Alexander Brome, English
- * István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet
- * Abdul Hakim, poet in medieval Bengal
- * Pierre Perrin, French poet and libretto composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 23 ' - Robert Tofte, English translator and poet
- February 6 ' - Richard Barnfield, English poet
- February 13 - Siôn Phylip, Welsh language poet
- February 19 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch merchant and writer, especially of epigrams and emblemata
- March 1 - Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician
- Also: Piotr Kochanowski, Polish