Citing Poetry & Drama MLA 8th Edition

Formatting Quotes: Poetry If you quote part or all of a line of verse, put it in quotation marks, just like you would a line of prose (like from a novel). You may incorporate up to three lines this way, using a forward slash with a space on each side to indicate where the line breaks fall. If a stanza (“poetic paragraph”) break occurs in the quotation, mark it with two forward slashes (with a space before the first slash and a space after the second slash).

Formatting quotes: Poetry Poetry quotations of more than three lines (also called verses) should be written as block quotes. Indent ½ inch from the left margin and maintain double-spacing Do not add quotation marks to the quotation, unless they are already present in the source text End the quote with a period, then the parenthetical citation (note that this is the opposite of a standard in-text citation format) Continue the rest of the paragraph without indenting

In-Text Citations: Poetry When citing from poetry, cite the line number(s), NOT the page number ONLY cite stanzas if the poet numbers the stanzas in the actual poem In a citation of multiple works by the same author, the titles (shortened, if necessary) are listed in place of the author’s name Generally, if a poem’s title is more than four words, then it is shortened. This is done by finding the key words in the poem’s title. For example, “The long love that in my thought doth harbor” = “Long love”, while “Martial, the things for to attain” = “Martial” If you’re citing two poems from Wyatt, you’d cite them like this: (“Stand whoso list”1-5) and (“Wealth and Ease”6-8) When citing multiple works by multiple authors, you must include identifying information (the poet/author’s name, if you use only one of their works, OR the title of the work, if you have multiple works by the same author) in EVERY parenthetical citation

Works Cited for Petrarch Sonnet 292 and The Faerie Queene document Since these documents came from worksheets/downloads provided for you in class, the Works Cited citation follows a general format: author, title, source, date of access, descriptive term. Note that your parenthetical/in-text citations should not change; the poet/title and line numbers must still be cited appropriately. For Petrarch: Petrarch, Francesco. “Sonnet 292.” Herrick English class, 10 January 2017. Handout. For Spenser, from the “Britomart’s Story” document: Spenser, Edmund. “The Faerie Queene: Britomart’s Story.” Adapted by Jessica Herrick, Herrickenglish.weebly.com, 3 February 2017. Adaptation. *Be sure to change the spacing of these entries, as needed, when copying into your final assignment.*