1692 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

• Richard Ames:
  • The Double Descent, published anonymously^[1]
  • The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously^[1]
  • Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness, anonymous reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're of 1682 (see also Sylvia's Revenge 1688)^[1]
• Richard Baxter, translator, Paraphrase on the Psalms of David^[1]
• John Crowne, translator, The Daeneids, translation of Le Lutrin from the original French of Boileau^[2]
• John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously^[1]
• John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics, Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end [...]"^[3]
• Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations,^[1] in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry^[3]
• Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology^[1]
• Matthew Prior, An Ode in Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace^[1]
• William Walsh, Letters and Poems, amorous and Gallant, published anonymously^[1]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• John Byrom (died 1763), English poet
• Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni (died 1768), Italian poet
• Li E (died 1752), Chinese poet
• Louis Racine (died 1763), French poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Thomas Shadwell (born 1642), English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes