1906 in poetry
This article covers 1906 in poetry.
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Events
- Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems
- Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets
- Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman.
- J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.
- Frederick George Scott, ''The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- 'Æ', By Still Waters
- Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight
- John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems
- Walter de la Mare, Poems
- C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain
- Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II
- Douglas Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland
- Thomas MacDonagh, The Golden Joy, Irish poet published in Ireland
- Harold Monro, Poems
- Alfred Noyes:
- * Drake
- * "The Highwayman", a ballad
- Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars
- Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems
- W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States">American poetry">United States
- Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?
- William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems
- Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964
Other in English
- W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology
- W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Francis Jammes:
- * Clairières dans le Ciel
- * L'Eglise habillée de feuilles
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, ''Les Sept Solitudes''
Other
- José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, Peru
- Amelia Denis de Icaza, "Al Cerro Ancón", Panama
- Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia, Russia
- Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; Canada
- Marie Heiberg, Mure-lapse laulud, Estonia
- Johannes V. Jensen, Digte, Denmark
- Mikhail Kuzmin, Alexandrian Songs, Russia
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh, an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし, Japanese Shōwa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group also including Kawabata Bosha; founder of literary magazine, Fue in 1946
- January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller,, German playwright and poet
- January 19 – Robin Hyde, New Zealand
- February 22 – Humayun Kabir Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
- May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth, Australian scholar, literary critic and poet
- May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce, Canadian writer
- May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian
- June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
- June 27 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet writing in English
- August 8 – Jesse Stuart, American short story writer, poet and novelist
- August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
- September 2 – Ronald Bottrall, English
- September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw, American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
- September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference, Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist
- September 27 – William Empson, English literary critic and poet
- October 16 – Cleanth Brooks influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
- November 12 – George Hill Dillon, American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- November 23 – Betti Alver, Estonia
- December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Also:
- * Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
- * Mary Finnin, Australian
- * James Picot, Australian
- *A. J. Wood, Australian
Deaths
- February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American
- February 27 – Colm de Bhailís, Irish
- March 1 – Lettie S. Bigelow, American
- March 31 – James McIntyre, Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
- date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American abolitionist, novelist and poet