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1702 in poetry
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1702 poetry literature
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Events
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.Bolitho, Harold (2003), in Treasures of the Yenching: seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Chinese University Press. 978-962-996-102-2. p. 35.
Edward Bysshe, The Art of English PoetryGrun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 320 (criticism)
Daniel Defoe:
The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King WilliamCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
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 AmericaBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
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
See also
poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
18th century in poetry
18th century in literature
Augustan poetry
Notes
Category:18th-century poetry
Poetry