1651 in literature
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The year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- August 22 - Execution on Tower Hill in London of Welsh Protestant preacher Christopher Love, whose sermons are later published.
New books
- 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)
- William Cartwright - Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems
- Mary Cary (Rande) - The Little Horn's Doom and Downfall and A New and More Exact Map of the New Jerusalem's Glory
- 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
- 'A Scholler in Oxford' - Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject
- 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"
- Francisco de Quevedo - Virtud militante contra las cuatro pestes del mundo y cuatro fantasmas de la vida
- Jerónimo de Cáncer - Vejamen
- Baltasar Gracián - El criticón (first part)
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville - Jeune Alcidiane
- Paul Scarron - Roman comique ("Comic romance"), first part
- Filip Stanislavov - Abagar, first printed book in modern Bulgarian
Published plays
- William Cartwright
- The Lady Errant
- The Ordinary
- The Siege, or Love's Convert
- Thomas Randolph (attributed to) - Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery (adapted from Aristophanes' Plutus)
- Leonard Willan - Astraea, or True Love's Mirror (adapted from Honoré D'Urfé's L'Astrée)
- 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
Poetry
- Sir William Davenant - Gondibert (second impression)
- Henry Vaughan - Olor Iscanus ("Swan of Usk")
- 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
Births
- April 6 – André Dacier, French classicist (died 1722)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 29 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (born 1586)
- 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)
- Unknown dates
- Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, Italian poet and librettist (born 1606)
- Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
- Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)
- Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)