1702 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
[edit]Works published
[edit]- 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:
- 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 320
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ 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