1692 in poetry

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Works published in English

 * 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

Births
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 * John Byrom (died 1763), English poet
 * Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni (died 1768), Italian poet
 * Louis Racine (died 1763), French poet

Deaths
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 * Thomas Shadwell (born 1642), English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689