1692 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1692.
Events
- November
- Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.[1]
- Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.[2]
- December 9 â Playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day.[3]
New books
Prose
- Richard Ames â The Jacobite Coventicle, Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness (in answer to Robert Gould)
- Madame d'Aulnoy â Histoire de Jean de Bourbon, Prince de Carency (The Prince of Carency)
- Richard Baxter â Paraphrase on the Psalms of David
- Richard Bentley â three "confutations" of Atheism and The Folly of Atheism, and (what is now called) Deism
- Gilbert Burnet â A Discourse on the Pastoral Care
- William Congreve â Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd: A novel
- Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway â The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- John Dryden â Eleonara
- Roger L'Estrange â Fables, of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists
- Edmund Gibson (ed.) â Chronicon Saxonicum
- Ihara Saikaku â Reckonings That Carry Men Through the World
- Ben Jonson (died 1637) â Third folio collection of the Works
- John Locke â Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax â Maxims of State
- Sir William Temple â Memoirs of What Past in Christendom: From the war begun in 1672 to the peace concluded 1679
- William Walsh â Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
- Anthony à Wood â Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii
- Nicolás Antonio â Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus
Drama
- Reuben Bourne â The Contented Cuckold, or Woman's Advocate
- Nicholas Brady â The Rape, or the Innocent Impostors
- John Crowne â Regulus
- John Dryden (with Thomas Southerne) â Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
- Thomas D'Urfey â The Marriage-Hater Matched
- William Mountfort â Henry II
- Elkanah Settle â The Fairy-Queen, an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with music by Henry Purcell
- Thomas Shadwell â The Volunteers
Poetry
- John Dennis, Poems in Burleseque
- Thomas Fletcher â Poems on Several Occasions
- Charles Gildon â Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz â Obras (second volume)
- Antonio de SolÃs y Rivadeneyra â Varias poesÃas sagradas y profanas
Births
- February 25 Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (died 1775)
- February 29 John Byrom, English poet (died 1763)
- April 5 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
- May 18 Joseph Butler, theologian of the Church of England (died 1752)
- November 6 Louis Racine, French poet (died 1763)
- Unknown dates
- Li E (å²é¶), Chinese poet (died 1752)
- John Mottley, English dramatist, biographer and compiler of jokes (died 1750)[4]
Deaths
- By February â Sir George Etherege, English dramatist (born c. 1636)
- May 6 â Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (born c. 1653)
- May 18/19 â Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (born 1617)[5]
- July 30 (buried) â Jacob Bauthumley, English radical religious writer (born 1613)
- September 21 â Ermes di Colorêt, Friulian nobleman and poet (born 1622)
- November 6 â Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (born 1619)
- November 19 â Thomas Shadwell, English Poet Laureate and playwright (born c. 1642)[6]
- December 10 â William Mountfort, English dramatist and actor (born c. 1664)
- unknown date - Zera Yacob, Ethiopian philosopher (born 1599)