1702 in literature

1702 in literature

The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* March 11 - First publication of the "Daily Courant", (First regular daily English-language newspaper.
* Sir John Vanbrugh turns from drama to architecture by designing Castle Howard.
* Accession of Queen Anne of England upon the death of William III of England.

New books

* Thomas Brown, et al. - "Letters From the Dead to the Living"
* Edmund Calamy - "An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times"
* Daniel Defoe - "An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity"
** - "The Mock-Mourners" (on the death of William III)
** - "A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty"
** - "Reformation of Manners"
** - "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters"
** - "The Spanish Descent"
* John Dennis - "The Monument"
* Laurence Echard - "A General Ecclesiastical History"
* George Farquhar - "Love and Business"
* Edmund Gibson - "Synodus Anglicana" (on the convocation)
* Charles Gildon (?) - "A Comparison Between the Two Stages" (on the "War of the Theatres")
*"Examen Miscellaneum"
* Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - "The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England" (aka "Clarendon's History")
* George Keith - "The Standard of the Quakers Examined"
* Cotton Mather - "Magnalia Christi Americana"
* Matthew Prior - "To a Young Gentleman in Love"
* John Toland - "Paradoxes of State"
* Catherine Trotter Cockburn - "A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding" (re John Locke)

New drama

* Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - "Altemira", posthumously published
* William Burnaby - "The Modish Husband"
* Susanna Centlivre - "The Beau's Duel"
* Colley Cibber - "She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not"
* John Dennis - "The Comical Gallant"
* George Farquhar - "The Inconstant"
** - "The Twin-Rivals"
* Bevil Higgons - "The Generous Conqueror"
* Nicholas Rowe - "Tamerlane"
* Sir Charles Sedley - "The Tyrant King of Crete"

Poetry

* "See 1702 in poetry"

Births

* June 26 - Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
*"date unknown"
** Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788)
** Kenrick Prescot
** Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet (died 1783)

Deaths

*May 27 - Dominique Bouhours, literary critic (born 1628)
*"date unknown"
** Roger Morrice, journalist and diarist (born 1628)
** John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667


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