1651 in literature

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

Events

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
Mary Cary – 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
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
Filip Stanislavov – Abagar
Anna Weamys – A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia
Sir Henry Wotton – 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"

William Davenant – Gondibert
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 ''