This article covers 1906 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- 'ÃÂ' (George William Russell), 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
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Other
- José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, Peru
- Amelia Denis de Icaza, "" ("Ancon Hill"), Panama
- Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia ("Poems"), Russia
- Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; Canada
- Marie Heiberg, Mure-lapse laulud ("Songs of a Problem Child"), 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 (Indian, writing in Gujarati) (criticism)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 â Takashi Matsumoto æ¾æ‹ÂÂãÂÂãÂÂ(died 1956), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa 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 ("Flute") in 1946
- January 6 â Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, (died 1972), German playwright and poet
- January 19 â Robin Hyde (suicide 1939), New Zealand
- February 22 â Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
- April 13 â Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
- May 10 â Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974), Australian scholar, literary critic and poet
- May 11 â Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer
- May 17 â Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- June 12 â Sandro Penna (died 1977), Italian
- June 22 â Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
- June 27 â Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
- August 8 â Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet and novelist
- August 28 â John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
- September 2 â Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
- September 16 â Stanley Burnshaw (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
- September 20 â Ishizuka Tomoji ç³å¡ÂÃ¥ÂÂ亠the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji ç³å¡ÂÃ¥ÂÂ次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa period haiku poet and novelist
- September 27 â William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
- October 16 â Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
- November 12 â George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- November 23 (November 10 O.S.) â Betti Alver (died 1989), Estonia
- December 23 â Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Also:
- Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
- Mary Finnin, Australian
- James Picot (died 1944), Australian
- A. J. Wood, Australian
Deaths
See also
Notes