1620 in poetry

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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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

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:

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

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