Overview of the events of 1620 in poetry
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Events
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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 (died 1613)
- 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 (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 " 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
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6