1751 in literature

See also: 1750 in literature, other events of 1751, 1752 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Amelia – Henry Fielding
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – Thomas Gray
• The History of Pompey the Little – Francis Coventry
• Memoirs of a Coxcomb – John Cleland

Births

• February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voss
• October 20 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Deaths

• October 26 – Philip Doddridge
• December 12 – Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke