# 1906 in poetry

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

## Events

* Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein

## Works published in English
### 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

* 'Æ' (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

### 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

* 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" ("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 – 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
* May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer
* 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
** James Picot (died 1944), Australian
** A. J. Wood, Australian

## 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