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Poems of Passion

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Cover of the first edition of Poems of Passion, 1883

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]

Contents

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Poems of Passion contains the following poems:

Miscellaneous poems:

References

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  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. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-09.