1702 in poetry
# 1702 in poetry

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## 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 (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
