1906 in poetry

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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

Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein

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

'Ã' (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]

Works published in other languages

France

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

Other

Amelia Denis de Icaza, "Al Cerro AncÃ³n" ("Ancon Hill"), Panama
Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia ("Poems"), Russia
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

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

January 5 â Takashi Matsumoto æ¾æ¬ããã(died 1956), Japanese ShÅwa 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 MÃ¶ller, (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^[16]
May 11 â Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer^[4]
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¡åäº the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji ç³å¡åæ¬¡, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese ShÅwa 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^[17]
- James Picot (died 1944), Australian^[18]
- A. J. Wood, Australian

Deaths

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

Notes

[1]
Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
[2]
Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
[3]
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
[4]
"A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
[5]
Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al., ed. (1993). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p. 633.
[6]
Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602â1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." â from the Preface, p vi)
[7]
Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
[8]
Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
[9]
Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
[10]
Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
[11]
Web page titled "JosÃ© Santos Chocano" Archived 2012-08-23 at the Wayback Machine at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
[12]
Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
[13]
Heiberg, Marie (1906). Mure-lapse laulud. Noor Eesti.
[14]
"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
[15]
Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
[16]
Lee, Stuart (1996). "Howarth, Robert Guy (1906-1974)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
[17]
"Mary Finnin". Oldpoetry.com. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
[18]
"Picot, James (Jim) (1906â1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2007-10-03.