Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette English Faculty Research and Publications English, Department of 1-1-2008 The iM lwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism Angela Sorby Marquette University,
[email protected] Accepted version. Legacy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2009): 69-91. DOI. © 2009 The nivU ersity of Nebraska Press. Used with permission. Marquette University e‐Publications@Marquette English Faculty Research and Publications/Department of English This paper is NOT THE PUBLISHED VERSION; but the author’s final, peer‐reviewed manuscript. The published version may be accessed by following the link in the citation below. Legacy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2009): 69‐91. DOI. This article is © University of Nebraska Press and permission has been granted for this version to appear in e‐Publications@Marquette. University of Nebraska Press does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from University of Nebraska Press. The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism Angela Sorby Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI "How can one begin? Where can one leave off?" (Woolf 97). Faced with Ella Wheeler Wilcox's autobiography, The Worlds and I, Virginia Woolf was—or claimed to be—stymied: There never was a more difficult book to review. If one puts in the Madame de Staël of Milwaukee, there will be no room for the tea‐leaves; if one concentrates upon Helen Pitkin, Raley Husted Bell . must be done without. [A]nd as for Ella Wheeler Wilcox—Mrs [sic] Wilcox is indeed the chief problem.