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 Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.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. 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 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 William Walsh – Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant Anthony à Wood – Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii. Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus