1692 in poetry

Events

• February 16 - Julije Balović completes transcription of Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events".
• November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.

Works published

• Richard Ames:
• * The Double Descent, published anonymously
• * The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously
• * Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness, anonymous reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're of 1682
• Richard Baxter, translator, Paraphrase on the Psalms of David
• John Crowne, translator, The Daeneids, translation of Le Lutrin from the original French of Boileau
• John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously
• John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics, Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end "
• Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations, in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry
• Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology
• Matthew Prior, An Ode in Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace
• William Walsh, Letters and Poems, amorous and Gallant, published anonymously

Births

• February 29 - John Byrom, English poet
• November 6 - Louis Racine, French poet
• November 21 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet
• Li E, Chinese poet

Deaths

• September 21 - Ermes di Colorêt, Friulian courtier and poet
• November 19 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright, Poet Laureate from 1689