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1651 in literature

List of years in literature (table)

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1651.

Events

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

Births

Deaths

  • January 29 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (born 1586)
  • February 14 – Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)[4]
  • 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)[5]
  • Unknown dates
    • Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
    • Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)

References

  1. ^ Plant, David. "Biography of Christopher Love". bcw-project.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. ^ Margaret J. M. Ezell (14 September 2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714. Oxford University Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-19-818311-2.
  3. ^ Library of Universal Knowledge. American Book Exchange. 1879. p. 848.
  4. ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. Moxon. p. 473.
  5. ^ Oskar Garstein (1992). Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656. BRILL. p. 285. ISBN 90-04-09395-8.
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