1620 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

• Thomas Dekker, Dekker his Dreame[1]
• Sir Thomas Overbury, The First and Second Part of the Remedy of Love, translated from Ovid, Remedia amoris; published posthumously (died 1613)[1]
• Henry Peacham the younger, Thalias Banquet: Furnished with an hundred and odde dishes of newly devised epigrammes[1]
• Francis Quarles, A Feast of Wormes: Set forth in a poem of the history of Jonah[1]
• Samuel Rowlands, The Night-Raven[1]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 5 – Miklós Zrínyi (died 1664), Croatian and Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet
• July 20 – Nikolaes Heinsius (died 1681), Dutch poet and scholar
• Also:
  • Alexander Brome (died 1666), English
  • István Gyöngyösi (died 1704), Hungarian poet
  • Abdul Hakim (died unknown), poet in medieval Bengal
  • Pierre Perrin (died 1675), French poet and libretto composer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 23 (bur.) – Robert Tofte (born 1562), English translator and poet
• February 6 (bur.) – Richard Barnfield (born 1574), English poet
• February 13 – Siôn Phylip (born 1543), Welsh language poet
• February 19 – Roemer Visscher (born 1547), Dutch merchant and writer, especially of epigrams and emblemata
• March 1 – Thomas Campion (born 1567), English composer, poet and physician
• Also: Piotr Kochanowski (born 1566), Polish

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6