1693 in literature
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See also: 1692 in literature, other events of 1693, 1694 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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.
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New books
- The Impartial Critick by John Dennis
- Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae by August Hermann Francke
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Births
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Deaths
- April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist
- May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer