1620 in poetry

Events

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

• 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

• 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