1620 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1620. Events September 6 – Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London. December 16 – The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book taken to New England by the Pilgrim Fathers. unknown dates John Taylor "The Water Poet" publishes The Praise of Hemp-Seed; with The Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a Boat of browne-Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a Farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat in London, including the first mention in print of the deaths of Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont in 1616. The first near-complete English-language translation of Boccaccio's The Decameron, anonymous but attributed to John Florio and based on later French and Italian editions, is published by Isaac Jaggard in London. The second version of The Ballad of Chevy Chase appears. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas and Origin and Progress of the Disturbances in the Netherlands by Johannes Gysius are republished in the Netherlands. New books Prose Johann Valentin Andreae – De curiositatis pernicie syntagma Francis Bacon – Novum Organum John Bainbridge's translation of Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus Jacob Boehme The Threefold Life of Man Forty Questions on the Soul The Incarnation of Jesus Christ The Six Theosophical Points The Six Mystical Points Salomon de Caus – Hortus Palatinus Miguel de Cervantes translated by Thomas Shelton – Don Quixote (Second Part) Nicolaus Hunnius – Examen errorum Photinianorum 'Kinde Kit (of Kingstone)' – Westward for Smelts, or, The Water-man's fare of mad-merry western wenches Michael Maier – Septima Philosophica Feng Menglong Illustrious Words to Instruct the World (喻世明言, Yushi Mingyan, or Stories Old and New) The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt (The Sorcerer's Revolt or Quelling the Demons, expanded version) Bishop William Morgan, revised by Bishop Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd) – Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan (Bible translation into Welsh) Samuel Rowlands – The Night-raven (i. e. Nachtkrapp, a story to scare children)