1706 in poetry

• May 23 – The Battle of Ramillies, a victory for the British and their allies under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.

• Joseph Addison, The Campaign, on the victory at Blenheim
• Daniel Baker, The History of JobCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Advice to the Poets, published anonymously
• Stephen Clay, An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King: After the Battel of Ramilles, published anonymously; has been misattributed to Matthew Prior
• William Congreve:
• A Pindarique Ode ... On the Victorious Progress of Her Magesties Arms, Under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
• Discourse on the Pindarique Ode, in which the author criticized Abraham Cowley's viewsMark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 194, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
• Daniel Defoe:
• Caledonia
• Jure Divino, about the divine-right theory of monarchy
• John Dennis, The Battle of Ramilla; or, the Power of Union
• William Harison, Woodstock Park, London : printed for Jacob Tonson
• Nicholas Noyes, "On Cotton Mather's Endeavors Toward the Christian Education of Negro Slaves", English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books
• John Philips:
• Blenheim
• Cerealia: An imitation of Milton, published anonymously, also attributed to Elijah Fenton
• Thomas Tickell, Oxford, published anonymously, published this year, although the book states "1707"
• James Watson, editor, A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands, Edinburgh (published this year through 1711){{cite web|url=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml |title=Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) |work=The Burns Encyclopedia |access-date=2009-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714164232/http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml |archive-date=2010-07-14 |url-status=live |df= }}
• Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae{{cite web|first=Isabel|last=Rivers|title=Watts, Isaac (1674–1748)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28888|accessdate=2011-12-09|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28888}} {{ODNBsub}}

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

• Joseph Green (died 1780, English Colonial American clergyman and poet

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

• January 29 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (born 1638), English poet and courtier
• June – Jacques Testu de Belval (born c. 1626), French ecclesiastic and poet
• November 15 (presumed) – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (died 1683), deposed Buddhist religious leader and Tibetan poet
• December 3 – Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (born 1637), German countess and hymn writer
• Also:
• Luo Mu (born 1622), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
• John Phillips (born 1631), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips, nephew of John Milton
• Rahman Baba (born 1632), Indian Pashto poet
• Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (born 1657), German

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