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The Passion of Émile Nelligan: Canada's Saddest Poet
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:09
Publish Date: 2024-01-09 13:10:00
Description: Broken violins, cruel love, absent fathers, the thought that a fleeting glimpse of happiness is a mere worthless illusion. At the end of the 19th century, Émile Nelligan wrote hundreds of tragic, passionate, sonnets and rondels on these subjects and more. And yet, most English-speaking Canadians seem never to have heard of the Quebec poet.
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