title: 1651 in literature
text: # 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)
  