1651 in literature
# 1651 in literature

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

## 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)

## 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)
* February 14 – Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)
* 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)
* Unknown dates
   * Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
   * Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)
