1692 in literature explained

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- Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.^[2]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 – Playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day.^[3]

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

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)^[4]

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)^[5]
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)^[6]
December 10 – William Mountfort, English dramatist and actor (born c. 1664)
unknown date - Zera Yacob, Ethiopian philosopher (born 1599)

Book: Walter Hamilton. 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. 1879. E. Stock. 27.
Book: John Richetti. The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780. 6 January 2005. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-78144-2. 477.
Mountfort, William . 39 . 211–213 . 1894.
Rigg, J. M. (1894). "Mottley, John (1692–1750), dramatist and biographer". Dictionary of National Biography.
Book: Tobias Churton. The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons. 1 January 2005. Weiser Books. 978-1-60925-177-2. 1–.
Book: Thomas A. Prendergast. Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. 12 November 2015. University of Pennsylvania Press. 978-0-8122-9190-2. 169.