1692 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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" (Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi). November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England. 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 (see also Sylvia's Revenge 1688) 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 Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 29 - John Byrom (died 1763), English poet November 6 - Louis Racine (died 1763), French poet November 21 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (died 1768), Italian poet Li E (died 1752), Chinese poet Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 21 - Ermes di Colorêt (born 1622), Friulian courtier and poet November 19 - Thomas Shadwell (born c.