INFORMATION SHEET
Citing Poetry
Set off three or more lines of
poetry by indenting 10 spaces as shown below.
The king cautions
Prince Henry:
Thy place in council thou has rudely
lost,
which by
thy younger brother is supplied,
And art almost an alien to the
hearts
Of all the court
and princes of my blood.
(3.2.32-35)
Quoting Short
Passages of Poetry
Incorporate short
quotations of poetry (one or two lines) into your text.
Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1922)
remains a springtime search for nourishing water: “Sweet Thames, run softly,
for Ii speak not loud or long” (3.12) says the speaker in “The Fire Sermon”
while in Part 5 the speaker of “What the Thuder Said”
yearns for “a damp gust/Bringing rain” (5.73-74).
As the example
demonstrates:
1. Set off the material with
quotation marks.
2. Indicate separate lines by using
a virgule ( / ) with a space before and after the
slash mark.
3. Place line documentation within
parentheses immediately following the final quotation mark and inside the period.
4. Use Arabic numerals for books,
parts, volumes, and chapters of works; acts, scenes and lines of plays; cantos,
stanzas and lines of poetry.
Works Cited Format
Enter information
for books in the following order. Items 1,3, and 8 are
required. A specific example for a classical play follows.
1. Author(s) 6.
Volume number of book
2. Chapter or part
of book 7.
Name of the series
3. Title of the book 8.
Place, publisher, and date
4. Editor,
translator, or compiler 9.
Page numbers
5. Edition 10.
Total number of volumes
Classical Play
Works Cited Format
Shakespeare,
William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
(Author. Title. Place of
publication: Publisher, Copyright date.)