Nelligan's finest poems ?mile Nelligan, Canada's first truly modern poet, burst upon the scene as a prodigy creating brilliant lyrical poetry in late 19th-century Montr?al for three years before suffering, at age 19, a breakdown that left him in a mental asylum for the rest of his life Nelligan went on to achieve mythic status in Qu?bec - no other poet in all Canada has been the subject of so many biographies, films, novels, plays, and critical...