1906 in poetry

Works published in English

Canada

Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems^[1]
Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets^[1]
Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman.^[2]
J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses^[1]
Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.^[1]
Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems^[1]

United Kingdom

'Æ' (George William Russell), By Still Waters^[3]
Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight^[3]
John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems^[3]
Walter de la Mare, Poems^[3]
C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain^[4]
Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II^[4]
Douglas Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland^[5]
Thomas MacDonagh, The Golden Joy, Irish poet published in Ireland
Harold Monro, Poems^[3]
Alfred Noyes:
- Drake^[3]
- "The Highwayman", a ballad
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars^[3]
Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems^[3]
W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[3]

United States

Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?^[6]
William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems^[6]
Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964^[6]

Other in English

W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology^[7]
W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[3]

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Works published in other languages

France

Francis Jammes:
- Clairières dans le Ciel^[8]
- L'Eglise habillée de feuilles^[9]
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Sept Solitudes^[10]

Other

José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, Peru^[11]
Amelia Denis de Icaza, "Al Cerro Ancón" ("Ancon Hill"), Panama
Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia ("Poems"), Russia
Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; Canada^[12]
Marie Heiberg, Mure-lapse laulud ("Songs of a Problem Child"), Estonia^[13]
Johannes V. Jensen, Digte, Denmark^[14]
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)^[15]

Births

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Perspective

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), 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 ("Flute") in 1946
January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, (died 1972), German playwright and poet
January 19 – Robin Hyde (suicide 1939), New Zealand
February 22 – Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974), Australian scholar, literary critic and poet^[16]
May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer^[4]
May 17 – Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
June 12 – Sandro Penna (died 1977), Italian
June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet and novelist
August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) 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 (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist
September 27 – William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
November 23 (November 10 O.S.) – Betti Alver (died 1989), Estonia
December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Also:
- Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
- Mary Finnin, Australian^[17]
- James Picot (died 1944), Australian^[18]
- A. J. Wood, Australian

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Deaths

February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872), American
February 27 – Colm de Bhailís (born 1796, sic.), Irish
March 1 – Lettie S. Bigelow (born 1849), American
March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826), Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American abolitionist, novelist and poet^[4]

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