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The year 1620 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers.
- Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London.
- Appearance of the second version of The Ballad of Chevy Chase.
New books
- Francis Bacon - Novum Organum
- John Bainbridge's translation of Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus
- Standard Welsh Bible, translated by Bishop William Morgan, Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd).
- Salomon de Caus - Hortus Palatinus
- Thomas Rowlands - The Night Raven
New drama
- Anonymous (Thomas Heywood?) - Swetnam the Woman-Hater published
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Philaster published
- Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger - The Virgin Martyr
- Ben Jonson - News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (masque)
- - Pan's Anniversary (masque)
- Thomas Middleton & William Rowley - The World Tossed at Tennis (masque)
Poetry
Main article: 1620 in poetry
Births
- March 10 - Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, philologist and theologian (died1667) (died 1681)
- July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius, poet and scholar
- October 31 - John Evelyn, diarist (d. 1706)
- November 10 - Ninon de l'Enclos, author and patron of the arts (d. 1705)
- date unknown - Alexander Brome, poet (d. 1666)
- date unknown - Lucy Hutchinson, biographer (d. 1681)
- date unknown - Marchamont Needham, journalist and pamphleteer (d. 1678)
- probable - Melchisédech Thévenot, polymath (died 1692)
Deaths
- February 1 - Mario di Calasio, author of a Hebrew concordance (born 1550)
- February 19 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
- March 1 - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (b. 1567)
- date unknown - Richard Carew, author and translator (born 1555)
- date unknown - Nathaniel Field, dramatist (born 1587)
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