1906 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- '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]
- Harold Monro, Poems[3]
- Alfred Noyes:
- 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]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
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]
- 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 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Showa 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 (died 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 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer[4]
- May 17 – Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- 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 Showa 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
Deaths
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ↑ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- 1 2 3 4 "A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 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." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Web page titled "José Santos Chocano" at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
- ↑ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ↑ Heiberg, Marie (1906). Mure-lapse laulud. Noor Eesti.
- ↑ "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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Mary Finnin". Oldpoetry.com. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ↑ "Picot, James (Jim) (1906–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
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