1692 in poetry explained

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

Events

• February 16 - Julije Balović completes transcription of Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events" (Serbian: Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi).
• November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.

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^[4]
• 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:

• February 29 - John Byrom (died 1763), English poet
• November 6 - Louis Racine (died 1763), French poet
• November 21 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (died 1768), Italian poet
• Li E (died 1752), Chinese poet

Deaths

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

• September 21 - Ermes di Colorêt (born 1622), Friulian courtier and poet
• November 19 - Thomas Shadwell (born c. 1642), English poet and playwright, Poet Laureate from 1689

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 12, Franklin, Burt, 1971,, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
3. [Mark Van Doren]
4. [Mark Van Doren]