1692 in literature

Events

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  • Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.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

New books

Prose

• Richard Ames – The Jacobite Coventicle, Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness (in answer to Robert Gould)
• Madame d'Aulnoy – Histoire de Jean de Bourbon, Prince de Carency (The Prince of Carency)
• 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
• Edmund Gibson (ed.) – Chronicon Saxonicum
• Ihara Saikaku – Reckonings That Carry Men Through the World
• Ben Jonson (died 1637) – 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

Drama

• 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 Matched
• William Mountfort – Henry II
• 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 18/19 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (born 1617)
• July 30 (buried) – Jacob Bauthumley, English radical religious writer (born 1613)
• September 21 – Ermes di Colorêt, Friulian nobleman and poet (born 1622)
• 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)
• unknown date - Zera Yacob, Ethiopian philosopher (born 1599)

References

References

1. Walter Hamilton. (1879). "The Poets Laureate of England: Being a History of the Office of Poet Laureate, Biographical Notices of Its Holders, and a Collection of the Satires, Epigrams, and Lampoons Directed Against Them". E. Stock.
2. John Richetti. (6 January 2005). "The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780". Cambridge University Press.
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4. Rigg, J. M. (1894). "Mottley, John (1692–1750), dramatist and biographer". ''Dictionary of National Biography''.
5. Tobias Churton. (1 January 2005). "The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons". Weiser Books.
6. Thomas A. Prendergast. (12 November 2015). "Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain". University of Pennsylvania Press.