Template:RQ:Auden About the House
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1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “(please specify the page)”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Auden About the House/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote W. H. Auden's work About the House (1st edition, 1965). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
| Poem | First page number |
|---|---|
| Thanksgiving for a Habitat | |
| Prologue: The Birth of Architecture (for John Bayley) | page 3 |
| Thanksgiving for a Habitat (for Geoffrey Gorer) | page 5 |
| The Cave of Making (in Memoriam Louis MacNeice) | page 8 |
| Down There (for Irving Weiss) | page 14 |
| Up There (for Anne Weiss) | page 15 |
| The Geography of the House (for Christopher Isherwood) | page 16 |
| Encomium Balnei (for Neil Little) | page 19 |
| Grub First, then Ethics (Brecht) (for Margaret Gardiner; written 1958) | page 23 |
| For Friends Only (for John and Teckla Clark) | page 27 |
| Tonight at Seven-thirty (for M. F. K. Fisher) | page 29 |
| The Cave of Nakedness (for Louis and Emmie Kronenberger) | page 32 |
| The Common Life (for Chester Kallman) | page 36 |
| In and Out | page 39 |
| A Change of Air | page 41 |
| You | page 43 |
| Et in Arcadia Ego | page 45 |
| Hammerfest | page 47 |
| Iceland Revisited (for Basil and Susan Boothby) | page 49 |
| On the Circuit | page 51 |
| Four Occasional Poems | |
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page 54 |
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page 56 |
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page 57 |
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page 58 |
| Symmetries & Asymmetries | page 60 |
| Four Transliterations | |
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page 66 |
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page 68 |
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page 70 |
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page 69 |
| The Maker | page 72 |
| At the Party | page 74 |
| Lost | page 75 |
| Bestiaries are Out | page 76 |
| After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics | page 78 |
| Ascension Day, 1964 | page 80 |
| Whitsunday in Kirchstetten (for H. A. Reinhold) | page 82 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|subtitle=– a subtitle quoted from, for example,|subtitle=Postscript.|stanza=or|stanzas=– the stanza number(s) quoted from in Arabic numerals.|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the poem quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Auden About the House|page=34|passage=[A]udible here and there / in the half-dark, members of an avian orchestra / are already softly '''noodling''', limbering up for / an overture at sunrise, {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Auden About the House|34|[A]udible here and there / in the half-dark, members of an avian orchestra / are already softly '''noodling''', limbering up for / an overture at sunrise, {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Thanksgiving for a Habitat. The Cave of Nakedness (for Louis and Emmie Kronenberger).”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC, page 34:
- [A]udible here and there / in the half-dark, members of an avian orchestra / are already softly noodling, limbering up for / an overture at sunrise, […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Auden About the House|stanzas=13–15|pages=37–38|pageref=38|passage=[T]hat, after twenty-four years, / we should sit here in Austria / as '''cater-cousins''', under the glassy look / of a Naples Bambino, / the portrayed regards of [[w:Richard Strauss|Strauss]] and [[w:Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], / doing British crossword puzzles, / is very odd indeed.}} - Result:
- 1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Thanksgiving for a Habitat. The Common Life (for Chester Kallman).”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC, stanzas 13–15, pages 37–38:
- [T]hat, after twenty-four years, / we should sit here in Austria / as cater-cousins, under the glassy look / of a Naples Bambino, / the portrayed regards of Strauss and Stravinsky, / doing British crossword puzzles, / is very odd indeed.
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