1692 in poetry

• 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" ({{langx|sr|Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi}}).
• November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.

• Richard Ames:
• The Double Descent, published anonymouslyCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
• 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 BoileauClark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9385ZgRwSy4C&q=Boileau+and+the+French+Classical+Critics+in+England Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830)], p 12, Franklin, Burt, 1971, {{ISBN|978-0-8337-4046-5}}, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
• 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 [...]"Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 126, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
• Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations, in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetryMark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 101, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
• 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. 1642), English poet and playwright, Poet Laureate from 1689

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