1702 in poetry

Events

Main article: 1702

Works published

• Matsuo Bashō, Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, "The Narrow Road to the Interior" or "The Narrow Road to the Deep North") is published posthumously. This poetic travel diary chronicles a journey to the Northern Provinces of Honshū undertaken in 1689.
• Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (criticism)
• Daniel Defoe:
  • The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King William
  • Reformation of Manners: A satyr, published anonymously
  • The Spanish Descent
• John Dennis, The Monument, a memorial poem on the death of William III on March 8
• George Farquhar, Love and Business, verse and prose
• William King - De Origine Mali (in Latin)
• Mary Mollineux, Fruits of Retirement; or, Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine
• Nicholas Noyes, "A Prefatory Poem", the preface for Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, English Colonial America
• John Pomfret, Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
• Sir Charles Sedley, Miscellaneous Works (posthumous)
• Joseph Stennett, A Poem to the Memory of His Late Majesty William the Third

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• June 26 – Philip Doddridge (died 1751), English Nonconformist preacher and writer
• August 26 – Judith Madan, née Cowper (died 1781), English poet
• October 24 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura, taking pseudonym Tatsunojō (died 1783), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
• Also – Kenrick Prescot (died 1779), English poet
• Approximate date
  • David Mallet (died 1765), Scottish poet and dramatist
  • Francis Williams (died 1770), black Jamaican scholar and poet
  • Antonina Niemiryczowa (died 1780), Polish poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 26 – Zeb-un-Nissa (Makhfi) (born 1638), Persian poet and Mughal princess
• Late November – John Pomfret (born 1667), English poet and clergyman
• December 18 (bur.) – Laurens Bake (born 1629), Dutch poet

Notes

References

1. [[Harold Bolitho. Bolitho, Harold]] (2003), in ''Treasures of the Yenching: seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library'', Chinese University Press. {{ISBN. 978-962-996-102-2. p. 35.
2. Grun, Bernard, ''The Timetables of History'', third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 320
3. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
4. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books