1702 in poetry

• 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 HonshÅ« 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

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 YayÅ« 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

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

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