Poems of Passion

Poems of Passion is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that was published in 1883.[1]

Despite the fact that the book's title "threatened to spark a scandal," eventually it "was embraced by thousands of perfectly respectable midwestern readers."[2]

References

  1. ↑ Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1890). Poems of passion. Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  2. ↑ Sorby, Angela. "The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism". Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers. Retrieved 2014-02-09.


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