1651 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Anonymous, A Hermeticall Banquet, published this year, although the book states "1652"; some attribute the book to James Howell, others to Thomas Vaughan
• William Bosworth, The shaft and Lost Lovers
• John Cleveland, Poems, this "sixth edition" has 28 poems, including 23 from the fifth edition of The Character of a London Diurnall 1647 and an additional prose work, "The Character of a Country Committee-Man, with the Ear-Mark of a Sequestrator"; many more editions followed
• Sir William Davenant, Gondibert: An heroick poem, also known simply as Gondibert, including Davenant's "Preface to his most honour’d friend Mr. Hobs" and "The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sir William D’Avenant’s Preface before Gondibert" by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book is dedicated; also including commendatory verses by Edmund Waller and Abraham Cowley
• '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, includes Latin verses by Christopher Wren
• Sir Edward Sherburne, Salmacis. Lyrian & Sylvia. Forsaken Lydia. The Rape of Helen., the book was also published in another edition this year, titled Poems and Translations, Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine
• Henry Vaughan, Olor Iscanus: A collection of some select poems, and translations, includes four prose translations
• Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiae Wottonianae: Or, a collection of lives, letters, poems, poetry and prose, including "The Life of Sir Henry Wotton" by Izaak Walton; posthumously published

  Other

• Isaac de Benserade, Job, a sonnet; France

  Births

• February 25 - Quirinus Kuhlmann, German Baroque poet and mystic
• September 26 - Francis Daniel Pastorius, English Colonial American Quaker settler, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania and poet
• November 12 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught Novohispanic scholar, nun, poet and writer
• Mary Mollineux, née Southworth, English Quaker poet

  Deaths

• October 6 - Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet
• December 6 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet and translator
• Lady Mary Wroth, English poet