1651 in literature

1651 in literature

The year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher Love, whose sermons were later published.

New books

*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).

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")

Poetry

*Sir William Davenant - "Gondibert" (second impression)
*Henry Vaughan - "Olor Iscanus" ("Swan of Usk")

Births

* April 6 - André Dacier, classical scholar (died 1722)
* August 6 - François Fénelon, theologian (died 1715)
* November 12 (?) - Sor Juana, poet (died 1695)

Deaths

* October 7 - Jacques Sirmond, scholar (born 1559)


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