1702 in poetry

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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. ^[1]
• Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry ^[2] (criticism)
• Daniel Defoe:
  • The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King William ^[3]
  • Reformation of Manners: A satyr, published anonymously ^[3]
  • The Spanish Descent ^[3]
• John Dennis, The Monument, a memorial poem on the death of William III on March 8 ^[3]
• George Farquhar, Love and Business, verse and prose ^[3]
• William King - De Origine Mali (in Latin)
• Mary Mollineux, Fruits of Retirement; or, Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine ^[3]
• Nicholas Noyes, "A Prefatory Poem", the preface for Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana , English Colonial America ^[4]
• 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 ^[3]
• October 24 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), 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

See also

• poetry portal

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

Notes

1. 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. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
4. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN   978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books