How do I cite more than one sonnet from a sequence of sonnets?
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
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
As explained in a previous post, to distinguish between works with the same author and title, you need to include additional information in your parenthetical… Read More
No, but you could indicate in a note that the song was originally a poem. … Read More
Provide the section number as well as the line number: As Wordsworth writes in his series of sonnets The River Duddon, “Child of the clouds!… Read More
The MLA Handbook explains that when you refer to an untitled poem known by its first line, you should style the line the way it is shown in… Read More
Citing from a play that has both verse and prose sections—whether the play is William Shakespeare’s Macbeth or August Wilson’s Fences—is no different from citing… Read More
Yes. Clarity is worth the trouble of more punctuation. Let’s say you quote the following two lines of poetry: He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,… Read More
The ultimate goal is to be concise and to cite what is most useful to the reader. For quotations from a poem in a print… Read More