This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1651.
August 22 – Execution on Tower Hill in London of Welsh Protestant preacher Christopher Love, whose sermons are later published.
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)
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
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
'A Scholler in Oxford' – Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject
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"
Francisco de Quevedo – Virtud militante contra las cuatro pestes del mundo y cuatro fantasmas de la vida
Jerónimo de Cáncer – Vejamen
Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (first part)
Marin le Roy de Gomberville – Jeune Alcidiane
Paul Scarron – Roman comique ("Comic romance"), first part
Filip Stanislavov – Abagar, first printed book in modern Bulgarian
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)
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
Sir William Davenant – Gondibert (second impression)
Henry Vaughan – Olor Iscanus ("Swan of Usk")
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
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)
January 29 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (born 1586)
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)
Unknown dates
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, Italian poet and librettist (born 1606)
Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)
Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)
Georgette Heyer – Royal Escape (1938)
Walter Scott – Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826)
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