1702 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Colonial America

 * Nicholas Noyes, "A Prefatory Poem", the preface for Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, English Colonial America

England

 * 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
 * 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
 * Biography, criticism, scholarship
 * Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (criticism)

Other languages

 * Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Interior or The Narrow Road to the Deep North (奥の細道, Oku no Hosomichi) was published in 1702. This poetic travel diary chronicled a journey to the Northern Provinces of Honshū undertaken in 1689.

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * June 26 – Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
 * October 24 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (died 1783), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku, and a haikai poet
 * Also:
 * Judith Cowper (died 1781), English
 * Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788), Irish poet and politician
 * Kenrick Prescot
 * Francis Williams (died 1770), black Jamaican scholar and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Laurens Bake (born 1629), Dutch poet
 * John Pomfret (born 1667), English poet and clergyman