1692 in literature

none July 2020 1692 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1692. Events November Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.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 https://books.google.com/books?id=PkBMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR27 1879 E. Stock 27 Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.John Richetti The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 https://books.google.com/books?id=UtmE5JzCOFAC&pg=PA477 6 January 2005 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-78144-2 477 December 9 – Playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day.Mountfort, William 39 211–213 1894 New books 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 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)Rigg, J. M. (1894). "Mottley, John (1692–1750), dramatist and biographer". Dictionary of National Biography. 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)Tobias Churton The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons https://books.google.com/books?id=aOAeMsVl3EwC&pg=RA1-PT145 1 January 2005 Weiser Books 978-1-60925-177-2 1– 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)Thomas A. Prendergast Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=_wPpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 12 November 2015 University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-9190-2 169 December 10 – William Mountfort, English dramatist and actor (born c. 1664) unknown date - Zera Yacob, Ethiopian philosopher (born 1599) References