1806 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson.
William Wordsworth completes his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version started in 1805. It would be further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revised the original, two-part 1798-1799 version. The book is not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.
Following publication of Irish-born poet Thomas Moore's Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, Francis Jeffrey denounces it in the July Edinburgh Review as "licentious". Moore challenges Jeffrey to a duel in London but their confrontation is interrupted by officials and they become friends.

Elizabeth Bath, Poems, on Various Occasions
James Beresford, The Miseries of Human Life; or, The Groans of Timothy Testy, and Samuel Sensitive, published anonymously
Robert Bloomfield, Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry
Lord Byron, Fugitive Pieces, including "The First Kiss of Love", published anonymously and privately printed; the author's first publication
John Wilson Croker, The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion, published anonymously
Thomas Holcroft, Tales in Verse
Walter Savage Landor, Simonidea
James Montgomery, The Wanderer of Switzerland, and Other Poems
Thomas Moore, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems
Thomas Love Peacock, Palmyra, and Other Poems
Mary Robinson, The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson
William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, a children's classic
Sir Walter Scott, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces
Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor, Rhymes for the Nursery, including "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"

Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Gazette Publications By Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Carlisle: Printed by Alexander & Phillips
Thomas Green Fessenden:
* Democracy Unveiled, or, Tyranny Stripped of the Garb of Patriotism. By Christopher Caustic, L. L. D. &c.&c.&c.&c.&c.&c.&c.&c.&c. In Two Volumes... Third edition, with large additions (New York: Printed for I. Riley, & Co. The most well-known poetic attack on Thomas Jefferson and other prominent Democratic Republicans; in six cantos of mock-heroic footnotes and including many footnotes
* Original Poems, Philadelphia: Printed at the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson
John Blair Linn, Valerian, epic poem on the persecution of early Christians; published unfinished after Linn died of tuberculosis; with an introduction by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law
Alexander Wilson, The Foresters, a description of nature and events during a walking trip from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls and back again

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January 9 - Joseph-Isidore Bédard, Canadian poet, lawyer and politician
January 20 - Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, American author, poet and editor who worked with notable writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English
April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, American poet, novelist and historian
date not known - Charles Tompson, Australian public servant and said to be the first published Australian-born poet

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