1906 in poetry
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Events

• Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein

Works published

• W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology^[1]
• D. Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland^[2]
• Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman", a ballad
• C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain
• Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II

Births

• January 19 — Robin Hyde (died 1939), New Zealand
• April 13 — Samuel Beckett (died 1989), poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
• October 16 — Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
• November 12 — George Hill Dillon, American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry (died 1968)
• John Betjeman
• Bruce Charles (Canada)
• Sir William Empson
• Anne Lindbergh (US)
• Vernon Watkins (Wales)

Deaths

• Ronald Bottrall
• Martha Browne
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• James McIntyre

Awards and honors

Notes

1. ^ 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
2. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p 633

See also

Poetry portal

• List of years in poetry
• Poetry