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1692 in literature

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

Contents

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.
  • Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.

    • Prose

  • 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
  • James Tyrrell – A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature
  • William Walsh – Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
  • Anthony à Wood – Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii.
  • Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus

    • Drama (printed)

  • Reuben Bourne – The Contented Cuckold, or Woman's Advocate
  • Nicholas Brady – The Rape, or The Innocent Impostors
  • John Dryden (with Thomas Southerne) – Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
  • Thomas D'Urfey – The Marriage-Hater Match'd
  • Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail

    • Drama

  • John Crowne – Regulus
  • Nicholas Brady – The Rape, or the Innocent Imposters
  • Elkanah Settle – The Fairy Queen, an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with music by Henry Purcell
  • Thomas Shadwell – The Volunteers

    • Poetry

  • John Dennis, Poems in Burleseque
  • Thomas Fletcher – Poems on Several Occasions
  • Charles Gildon – Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Obras (second volume)
  • Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra – Varias poesías 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 (厲鶚), Chinese poet (died 1752)
  • John Mottley, English dramatist, biographer and compiler of jokes (died 1750)

    • Deaths

  • 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)

    • References

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