1651 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1651.

Events

• August 22 – Execution on Tower Hill in London of Welsh Protestant preacher Christopher Love<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New books

Prose

• Noah Biggs – Chymiatrophilos, Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the Craft of Physick, or, A new dispensator
• William Bosworth – The Chaste and Lost Lovers
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Parthenissa (first section)
• Mary Cary (Rande) – The Little Horn's Doom and Downfall and A New and More Exact Map of the New Jerusalem's Glory
• Marin le Roy de Gomberville – Jeune Alcidiane
• Francisco de Quevedo – Virtud militante contra las cuatro pestes del mundo y cuatro fantasmas de la vida
• Baltasar Gracián – El Criticón (first part)
• Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
• John Milton – Defensio pro Populo Anglicano
• Paul Scarron – Roman comique (Comic romance, first part)
• Filip Stanislavov – Abagar (first printed book in modern Bulgarian)
• Anna Weamys – A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia
• Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous) – Reliquiæ Wottonianæ; or, a collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art "By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late, provost of Eton Colledg"

Drama

• William Cartwright
  • The Lady Errant
  • The Ordinary
  • The Siege, or Love's Convert
  • Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El alcalde de Zalamea
• Jerónimo de Cáncer – Obras varias
• Francisco López de Zárate – Hercules furente y oeta
• Juan de Matos Fragoso – La defensa de la Fè, y Principe prodigioso
• Thomas Randolph (attributed to) – Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery (adapted from Aristophanes' Plutus)
• Jerónimo de Cáncer – Vejamen
• Leonard Willan – Astraea, or True Love's Mirror (adapted from Honoré D'Urfé's L'Astrée)

Poetry

• William Davenant – Gondibert (second impression)
• Francisco de Borja y Aragón – Nápoles recuperada
• Manuel de Salinas y Lizana – La casta Susana, paráfrasis poética de su sagrada historia
• Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa – Neapolisea
• Henry Vaughan – Olor Iscanus (Swan of Usk)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• April 6 – André Dacier, French classicist (died 1722)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 6 – François Fénelon, French theologian (died 1715)
• October 24 – Jean de La Chapelle, French dramatist (died 1723)
• November 12 – Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sor Juana), Mexican poet (died 1695)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Deaths

• January 29 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (born 1586)
• February 14 – Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April – Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond, English women's writer (born c. 1576)
• October 7 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (born 1559)
• December 14 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (born 1582)
• December 22 – Arnold Johan Messenius, Swedish royal historiographer (born 1607/1608)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Unknown dates
  • Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
  • Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)