1692 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1692.

Events

November – Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.
December 9 – Playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day.^[1]
Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.

Richard Ames – The Jacobite Coventicle, Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness (in answer to Robert Gould)
Richard Baxter – Paraphrase on the Psalms of David
Richard Bentley – three "confutations" of Atheism and The Folly of Atheism, and (what is now called) Deism
Gilbert Burnet – A Discourse on the Pastoral Care
William Congreve – Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd: A novel
Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway – The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
John Dryden – Eleonara
Roger L'Estrange – Fables, of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists
Ihara Saikaku – Reckonings That Carry Men Through the World
Ben Jonson – the third folio collection of the Works
John Locke – Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax – Maxims of State
Sir William Temple – Memoirs of What Past in Christendom: From the war begun in 1672 to the peace concluded 1679
William Walsh – Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
Anthony à Wood – Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii.
Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus

Reuben Bourne – The Contented Cuckold, or Woman's Advocate
Nicholas Brady – The Rape, or the Innocent Impostors
John Crowne – Regulus
John Dryden (with Thomas Southerne) – Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
Thomas D'Urfey – The Marriage-Hater Match'd
Elkanah Settle – The Fairy Queen, an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with music by Henry Purcell
Thomas Shadwell – The Volunteers
Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail

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 (厲鶚), Chinese poet (died 1752)
- John Mottley, English dramatist, biographer and compiler of jokes (died 1750)^[2]

By February – Sir George Etherege, English dramatist (born c. 1636)
May 6 – Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (born c. 1653)
May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (born 1617)
July 30 (buried) – Jacob Bauthumley, English radical religious writer (born 1613)
November 6 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (born 1619)
November 19 – Thomas Shadwell, English Poet Laureate and playwright (born c. 1642)
December 10 – William Mountfort, English dramatist and actor (born c. 1664)

↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Mountfort, William". Dictionary of National Biography. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 211–213.
↑ Rigg, J. M. (1894). "Mottley, John (1692–1750), dramatist and biographer". Dictionary of National Biography.

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