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