The document discusses Romantic poetry and how it is characterized by a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings according to Wordsworth. It provides guidelines for quoting poetry, including breaking short verse quotations into lines separated by slashes. The document also provides suggestions for citing websites, including placing the URL in angle brackets after the date of access and breaking URLs only after slashes.

1. Wordsworth stated that Romantic
poetry was marked by a "spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the
"spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

2. When short (fewer than three lines of
verse) quotations from poetry, mark
breaks in short quotations of verse with a
slash, ( / ), at the end of each line of
verse (a space should precede and follow
the slash).
 Cullen concludes, "Of all the things that
happened there / That's all I remember"
(11-12).
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Poetry

3. Use Google scholar
 Use Media Center on High School site

Searching for better articles

4. For instructors or editors who still wish to
require the use of URLs, MLA suggests
that the URL appear in angle brackets
after the date of access. Break URLs only
after slashes.
 Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H.
Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive.
Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov.
2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.
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Website Citations