Emile Nelligan
Émile Nelligan, born on December 24, 1879 in Montreal and who passed on November 18, 1941 in the same city, was a Quebec poet influenced by the symbolist movement as well as by the great romantics. Suffering from schizophrenia, Nelligan was committed to a mental institution shortly before the age of twenty and remained there until his death. His work is therefore strictly speaking a work of youth. His poems, first published in newspapers and collective works, were first published in a collection by his friend Louis Dantin under the title Émile Nelligan et son œuvre (1904).