1620 in poetry

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

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (July 2010)

• 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]

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

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

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