1702 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

• Matsuo Bashō, Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細é", "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 HonshÅ« 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 â€" Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
• October 24 â€" Yokoi YayÅ« 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (died 1783), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku, and a haikai poet

• Also:
  • Judith Cowper (died 1781), English
  • Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788), Irish poet and politician
  • Kenrick Prescot
  • Francis Williams (died 1770), black Jamaican scholar and poet

Deaths

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

• Laurens Bake (born 1629), Dutch poet
• John Pomfret (born 1667), English poet and clergyman

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry

Notes