1702 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Works published
- Matsuo Bashō, Oku no Hosomichi 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
- 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
- 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
- Joseph Stennett, A Poem to the Memory of His Late Majesty William the Third
Births
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- June 26 - Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist preacher and writer
- August 26 - Judith Madan, née Cowper, English poet
- October 24 - Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura, taking pseudonym Tatsunojō, Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
- Also - Kenrick Prescot, English poet
- Approximate date
- * David Mallet, Scottish poet and dramatist
- * Francis Williams, black Jamaican scholar and poet
- * Antonina Niemiryczowa , Polish poet
Deaths
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