1620 in poetry
# 1620 in poetry

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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 "[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
