1692 in literature

The year 1692 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

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• Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.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

New books

• 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.

Printed plays

• 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
• Joe Haynes - A Fatal Mistake
• Thomas Southerne - The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail

Plays

• John Crowne - Regulus
• Nicholas Brady - The Rape, or the Innocent Imposters
• Elkanah Settle - The Fairy Queen, an adptation 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

Births

• February 29 - John Byrom, poet (died 1763)
• November 6 - Louis Racine, poet and son of Jean Racine (died 1763)
• Joseph Butler - theologian of the Church of England

Deaths

• February - Sir George Etherege, dramatist (born c. 1635)
• May - Nathaniel Lee, dramatist (born c. 1653)
• May - Elias Ashmole, antiquarian.
• May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, novelist (born 1634)
• November 19 - Thomas Shadwell, dramatist (born c. 1642)
• December 9 - William Mountfort, dramatist and actor (born c. 1664)