1651 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1651. Events August 22 – Execution on Tower Hill in London of Welsh Protestant preacher Christopher Love 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"