1620 in literature

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The year 1620 in literature involved some significant events.

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.

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

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)