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
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 * 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