Emile Nelligan (Author)
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).

Fred Cogswell (Editor)
Fred Cogswell (1917-2004) was a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick and a graduate of the University of New Brunswick and Edinburgh. He is the translator of six works and collections of poetry and is himself the author of some twelve books of poems. He is represented in a score of anthologies and is well knwon as a critic, essayist, and reader. As the publisher and editor of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, he has been responsible for publishing more than 300 books of Canadian poetry. His The Poetry of Modern Quebec, an anthology of 20 major Quebec poets of four decades, was published by Harvest House in 1976.

The Poet’s Soul
The Mind’s Moonlight
My Soul
Ship of Gold
The Garden of Childhood
Yesterday’s Keyboard
Before my Cradle
Nostalgia for Toys
Before the Fire
First Remorse
My Mother
Before Two Portraits of my Mother
The Talisman
The Garden of Long Ago
Childhood Flight
Ruins
Evening Bells
On the Road
The Muse’s Cradle
Elite Loves
The Poet’s Dream
Innocent Caprice
Petition
The Robin in the Woods
Love’s May
The Dead Beauty
Sentimental Theme
Immaculate Love
A Dead-Woman's Missal
Castles in Spain
A Dead-Woman's Church
Cruel Beauty
With Feet on the Fender
Walled-In Dreams
Winter Evening
Five O’Clock
For Ignace Paderewski
Gretchen the Pale
Odd Song
The Parlour
The Shattered Violin
Roundel to my Pipe
Sentimental Winter
Farewell Violin
Mazurka
Winter-Chill
October Evenings
Virgilians
Autumn
Summer Night
Watteau-Dream
Autumn Taratenlla
Almost a Shepherd
Sentimental Garden
The Birds
Violin of the Vilanelle
Shepherdess
Funeral Etchings
Old Streets
Autumn Evenings
The Crows
The Hearse
The Parrot
A Grisly Banquet
Nocturnal Confession
The Negress’ Tomb
The Coffin
A Small Chapel
The Chapel in the Woods
Saint Cecilia
A Ticket to Heaven
Hospital-Night Dream
The Black Cloister
Communicants
The Deicides
The Monk’s Death
Diptych
The Ruined Chapel
Reply from the Cross
Carmelites
Our Lady of the Snows
Evening Prayers
Pastels and Porcelains
Creole Fantasy
Touch-Me-Nots
Supper’s King
Tawny Landscape
Fan
The Antique Dealer
Camellias
Family Clock
A Dead Woman’s Shoe
An Old Romantic
Old Cupboard
Vase
Tragic Vespers
Dismal Music
The Coffin-Maker
Sad Marches
The Haunted Well
The Idiot Girl
The Ghostly Ox
Tristia
The Lake
Corregio’s Last Angel
Old Artist’s Christmas
The Bell in the Mist
Christ on the Cross
Lament
Empty Melancholy
October Roses
My Christmas Clog
Passer-By
Under the Fauns
Glooms
Song of Wine
Recovered Poems
Whimsical Dream
Sylvio Mourns
A Work Woman’s Song
Nocturne
Hearts Blasé
A Rubinstein Melody
Charles Beaudelaire
Beatrice
Old Piano
Monks in Procession
Evening Rhythms
The Traveller
Sculptor in Marble
Golden Sonnet
On a Portrait of Dante
Ecclesiastical Siesta
Easter Communion
Small Stained-Glass Window
The Benedictine
Fra Angelico
Fragments I: Vision
II: The Death of a Prayer
III: The Madman
IV: Evening
V: I Place
VI: I Feel Flying
VII: Let’s Tamp the Road-Turn
To a Hated Woman
The Sad Wind of Autumn
To George Rodenbach
The Wreath
A Poet
Chopin’s Tomb
Cradle-Song
German Parlours
Posthumous Poems
The Tomb of Charles Beaudelaire
I Know Down There
Little Hamlet
Red Dawn
Modern Pan
Virgilian
Rural Chateau
How Sadly Sounds
Many Nights
I’d Like to Dodge Myself
Sad Prelude
To Sister With Love
Brother Alfus
The Suicide of Angel Valdor
Cats
The Deadly Cat
The Spectre
The Terrace with its Spectres
Black Virgin
Hypochondriac Nights