Only in Love, originally composed in Odia as Kebala Premare by the celebrated Neo-Romantic poet Dr. Phani Mohanty and translated into English by Dr. Sonali Sahu, represents one of the finest achievements of contemporary Indian lyric poetry in translation. Rather than presenting love merely as an emotional relationship between two individuals, the anthology gradually transforms love into a universal philosophical principle governing existence itself. Throughout the collection, love appears simultaneously as memory, desire, separation, devotion, creation, destruction, silence, longing, motherhood, cosmic energy, and spiritual liberation. The poems move effortlessly between the human and the divine, the sensuous and the sacred, the psychological and the metaphysical, thereby constructing an expansive poetic universe in which every emotion ultimately seeks transcendence. The translator succeeds not merely in reproducing lexical meanings but in preserving the emotional cadence, symbolic density, and cultural ethos of the original Odia poems, allowing English readers to experience the subtle rhythms of Odia poetic consciousness. This article undertakes a comprehensive critical examination of Only in Love through multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, including Neo-Romanticism, Indian aesthetics, myth criticism, archetypal criticism, eco-criticism, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, existential philosophy, phenomenology, translation studies, and comparative literature. It argues that the anthology should not merely be regarded as a collection of romantic poems but as a sustained philosophical meditation on human existence expressed through the language of love. Each poem contributes to a larger poetic architecture in which longing becomes illumination, memory becomes identity, absence becomes presence, and earthly affection evolves into spiritual realization. Through detailed analyses of the individual poems and their collective aesthetic vision, the article demonstrates how Dr. Phani Mohanty extends the possibilities of modern Indian lyric poetry while Dr. Sonali Sahu's translation successfully carries this poetic universe beyond linguistic boundaries into the wider domain of world literature.

Keywords— Neo-Romanticism; Indian English Translation; Odia Literature; Translation Studies; Comparative Literature; Indian Aesthetics.