1702 in literature

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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
• John Kersey - A New English Dictionary; or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language
• 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)
  • Margareta Momma, editor and writer

Deaths

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