1651 in literature
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The year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher Love, whose sermons were later published.
[edit] New books
- Noah Biggs - Chymiatrophilos, mataeotechnia medicinae praxes: The Vanity of the Craft of Physick
- 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
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville - Jeune Alcidiane
- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
- John Milton - Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio...
- Filip Stanislavov - Abagar, first printed book in modern Bulgarian
- Anna Weamys - A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia
- Sir Henry Wotton - Reliquiae Wottonianiae (posthumous).
[edit] 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)
[edit] Poetry
- Sir William Davenant - Gondibert (second impression)
- Henry Vaughan - Olor Iscanus ("Swan of Usk")
[edit] Births
- April 6 - André Dacier, classical scholar (died 1722)
- August 6 - François Fénelon, theologian (died 1715)
- October 24 - Jean de La Chapelle,
- November 12 (?) - Sor Juana, poet (died 1695)
[edit] Deaths
- October 7 - Jacques Sirmond, scholar (born 1559)
- December 14 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (born 1582)
- date unknown
- Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, poet and librettist (born 1606)
- Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c.1550)
- Henry Rice, courtier and writer (born c.1585)
