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:

Usage

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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.

About the House
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
  • I. A Toast (Christ Church Gaudy, 1960).
page 54
  • II. A Short Ode to a Philologist (1962).
page 56
  • III. Elegy for J. F. K. (November 22nd, 1963).
page 57
  • IV. Lines for Elizabeth Mayer on the Occasion of Her Eightieth Birthday, April 6th, 1964.
page 58
Symmetries & Asymmetries page 60
Four Transliterations
  • I. The Romantic.
page 66
  • II. Volcanoes.
page 68
  • III. The Complaint Book.
page 70
  • IV. Parabolic Ballad
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

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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).
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=on to 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

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  • 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:
  • 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.}}
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