1692 in literature

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*Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.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

*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)


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