1692 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1692.

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 * Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.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

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
 * Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail

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)