Footnote format: Firstname Lastname, ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, Volume.Issue (Year), x-xx (p. x) [accessed day month year].
Footnote example: Sarah Kane, ‘Crave’, in Complete Plays (London: Methuen Drama, 2001), pp. 153-202 (p. 165). If any publication details are not given in the source, use: ‘[n.p.]’ (= no place), ‘[n. pub.]’ (= no publisher), ‘[n.d.]’ (= no date). Bibliography example: Northcote, James, Othello, The Moor of Venice, 1826, oil on canvas, Manchester Art Gallery, UK The 1970s saw the emergence of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature; its editorial team included leading scholars Harold Bloom, Frank Kermode, and Lionel Trilling. It was discontinued. Bloom, a former student of Abrams', noted: "We were defeated in battle." [1] To move on from that loooong digression, readers of the 5th edition will also notice that 2 lengthy and tremendously informative sections on Versification and Poetic Syntax have been replaced by a glossary and some new online materials. The loss is sad--nobody will read a glossary the same way they will read an engaging and informative piece of text, and because this book is aimed for novices in college courses, the information there was surely valuable.
Footnote example: Kei Miller, ‘Some Definitions for Song’, The Poetry Archive, audio recording (2009) [accessed 8 April 2021]. Article Title’, Journal Title, day month year, section [accessed day month year] (para x. of x).
Footnote format: ‘Article Title’, Newspaper Title, day month year, section, p. x [accessed day month year]. If you're using articles found on the database Factiva, these do not have individual URLs, so use the basic URL for the database as shown in the examples (right). Bibliography format:Lastname, Firstname, Book Title, ed. by Firstname Lastname (Place of publication: Publisher, Year) I quite liked Norton's Anthology of Poetic Forms but I was left craving something more comprehensive. Enter, this gem. In the footnote reference, the author name should be first name followed by surname, e.g. Virginia Woolf. The bibliography needs to be arranged alphabetically by author surname, so always reverse the name of the first author in the bibliography reference, e.g. Woolf, Virginia.Mary Jo Salter (M.A. Cambridge University) is Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches poetry and poetry-writing. She has published several books of poems, including Unfinished Painting (1989), Sunday Skaters (1994), Open Shutters (2003), and, most recently, The Surveyors (2017). A former vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she has also served as poetry editor of The New Republic. Because these poems were obviously all written in English (although several different varieties of English), with the exception of a couple of poems written in Scots (e.g. Robert Burns’s), I won’t bother writing up a breakdown of nationality. You can probably guess it’s mostly British and American poets, I trust. What does interest me, however, is the disparity between gender, i.e., poems by men versus poems by women, and specifically the inclusion of women poets. Complicating this calculation somewhat are the anonymous lyrics and popular ballads, most of which either did not have a singular author but rather evolved from folk tradition or had a singular author but said author’s personal information has long since been lost to the sands of time. There are four collections of these particular verses: anonymous lyrics of the thirteenth- and fourteenth centuries (4); anonymous lyrics of the fifteenth century (13); popular ballads from roughly the fourteenth- and fifteenth centuries (15); and anonymous poems of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, around the sixteenth century (9). Those will not be included in any specifically gendered calculations; possibly they spontaneously generated from a volcano, or something. Who’s to say.
