Template:RQ:Emerson Complete Works/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's works entitled Emerson's Complete Works (1883–1893, 12 volumes) edited by James Elliot Cabot. It can be used to create a link to online versions of the works at the Internet Archive:

Volume I (contents). Volume II (contents). Volume III (contents). Volume IV (contents).

[ Volume V] ([ contents]). [ Volume VI] ([ contents]). [ Volume VII] ([ contents]). [ Volume VIII] ([ contents]).

[ Volume IX] ([ contents]). [ Volume X] ([ contents]). [ Volume XI] ([ contents]). Volume XII (contents).

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Emerson Essays}}), use it instead of this template.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=XII.
• |2= or |title= – mandatory: the title of the work quoted from.

Emerson's Complete Works

Parameter value	Result	First page number
Volume I
[Specify the page]	Nature	page 13
	The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.	page 81
	An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838	page 117
	Literary Ethics. An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838	page 149
	The Method of Nature. An Oration Delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841.	page 181
	Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841.	page 215
	Lecture on the Times. Read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841.	page 245
	The Conservative. A Lecture Read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841.	page 277
	The Transcendentalist. A Lecture Read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842.	page 309
	The Young American. A Lecture Read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844.	page 341
Volume II
Where possible, use {{RQ:Emerson Essays}} (1841).
Volume III
Where possible, use {{RQ:Emerson Essays|series=2nd}} (1844).
[Specify the page]	The Poet	page 9
	Experience	page 47
	Character	page 87
	Manners	page 115
	Gifts	page 151
	Nature	page 161
	Politics	page 189
	Nominalist and Realist	page 213
	New England Reformers. A Lecture Read before the Society in Amory Hall, on Sunday, March 3, 1844.	page 237
Volume IV
Where possible, use {{RQ:Emerson Representative Men}} (1850).
[Specify the page]	Uses of Great Men	page 9
	Plato; or, The Philosopher	page 39
	Plato: New Readings	page 78
	Swedenborg; or, The Mystic	page 89
	Montaigne; or, The Skeptic	page 141
	Shakspeare; or, The Poet	page 179
	Napoleon; or, The Man of the World	page 211
	Goethe; or, The Writer	page 247
Volume XII
Boston	Boston (1861)	page 83
Memory	Memory (1871)	page 61
Michael Angelo	Michael Angelo (June 1837)	page 113
Milton	Milton (July 1838)	page 143
Natural History of Intellect	Natural History of Intellect (1870)	page 1

• |chapter= and |chaptername= – if a title is divided into chapters, use |chapter= to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, and |chaptername= the name of the chapter.
• |date= – where a title has a date, use this parameter to specify the date in one of the following formats: |date=31 August 1837 or |date=August 31, 1837.
• |3= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=v–vi.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Emerson Complete Works|volume=XII|title=Milton|page=155|passage=[H]e [Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal '''equinox'''; and, in his essay on Education, he doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Emerson Complete Works|XII|Milton|155|[H]e [Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal '''equinox'''; and, in his essay on Education, he doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.}}
• Result:
  • 1838 July, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Milton”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, The Natural History of the Intellect (Emerson’s Complete Works; XII), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1893, →OCLC, page 155:

    [H]e [Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox; and, in his essay on Education, he doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.