How do I cite an online poem with no line numbers?
As the MLA Handbook notes, “When a source has no page numbers or any other kind of part number, no number should be given in a parenthetical… Read More
As the MLA Handbook notes, “When a source has no page numbers or any other kind of part number, no number should be given in a parenthetical… Read More
Yes. The MLA Handbook says that “in your first citation” of a poem, “use the word line or lines and then, having established that the numbers designate lines, give… Read More
If in your essay you use a quotation from a poem that you found in a journal article, your in-text citation should include “qtd. in.”… Read More
The MLA Handbook explains that if you are citing line numbers instead of page numbers in your parenthetical citation, you should “in your first citation, use the word… Read More
To cite a poem quoted in the published version of a speech, create a works-cited-list entry for the speech since it is your source. You… Read More
Use a single line space to separate stanzas of poetry, as in this excerpt from Felicia Hemans’s “The Image in Lava”: Thou thing of years… Read More
The Homeric hymns refer to poems that were once attributed, mistakenly, to the ancient Greek poet Homer. They are Homeric only in the sense that… Read More
It depends on whether the person posting the poem is responsible for the blog as a whole. If the blogger is responsible for the entire… Read More
As always, when you are citing a work contained in a larger work, you must identify the particular work you are citing. Thus, if you… Read More
If you are citing more than one essay, poem, or story by the same author and using a single collection of that author’s works—edited or… Read More