Emile Nelligan: Selected Poems

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Émile Nelligan: Selected Poems

Poetry
Picas Series 48
Translated by P. F. Widdows
ISBN 1-55071-205-5
88 Pages
$10 Canada – $8 U.S.A.

Émile Nelligan was born in 1879. His poetic career spans a meager two years, from 1897 to 1899.

In 1899 he suffered a nervous disorder which was later described as dementia praecox.

Until his death in 1941, Nelligan lived in a state of remote indifference. Émile Nelligan was the first Canadian writer to be influenced by Baudelaire and Rimbaud.

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