1906 in poetry

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, "", 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

• 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 31 – James McIntyre, Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
• date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American abolitionist, novelist and poet

  Awards and honors