1651 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1651.
Events
[edit]- August 22 – Execution on Tower Hill in London of Welsh Protestant preacher Christopher Love[1]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- William Davenant – Gondibert (second impression)
- 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 (Swan of Usk)[2]
Births
[edit]- April 6 – André Dacier, French classicist (died 1722)[3]
- 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)[4]
Deaths
[edit]- January 29 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (born 1586)
- February 14 – Jean Roberti, Flemish theologian (born 1569)[5]
- 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)[6]
- Unknown dates
- Adho Duraso, Rajasthani poet (born c. 1550)
- Henry Rice, Welsh courtier and writer (born c. 1585)
References
[edit]- ^ Plant, David. "Biography of Christopher Love". bcw-project.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Library of Universal Knowledge. American Book Exchange. 1879. p. 848.
- ^ Kirk, Pamela (1999). Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Religion, Art, and Feminism. New York: Continuum. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-82641-169-3.
- ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. Moxon. p. 473.
- ^ 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.