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.

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
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 * 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
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 * 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