# 1806 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson ("Christopher North").
* 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.

## Works published in English
### United Kingdom

* 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 (posthumous)
* 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"

### United States

* 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

## Works published in other languages

* Jacques Delille, L'Imagination; France
* Nólsoyar Páll, Fuglakvæði ("Ballad of the Birds"), Faroese, completed

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 9 – Joseph-Isidore Bédard (died 1833), Canadian poet, lawyer and politician
* January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, (died 1867) American author, poet and editor who worked with notable writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (died 1861), English
* April 17 – William Gilmore Simms (died 1870), American poet, novelist and historian
* date not known – Charles Tompson (died 1883), Australian public servant and said to be the first published Australian-born poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 19 – Elizabeth Carter (born 1717), English poet, classicist, writer, translator and a prominent member of the Bluestocking circle
* March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie (born 1744), German author and poet
* May 6 – Ann Yearsley (born c. 1753), English poet and writer
* July 16 – Caterino Mazzolà (born 1745), Italian poet and librettist
* October 19 – Henry Kirke White (born 1785), English
* October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith (born 1749), English poet and novelist
* date not known – Jupiter Hammon (born 1711), English Colonial American