1693 in literature

See also: 1692 in literature, other events of 1693, 1694 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.
• Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.

New Books

• The Impartial Critick by John Dennis

Births

• None listed

Deaths

• April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist
• [[]] - Marie Madeleine de Lafayette, French writer