On Fiction, or, a colloquial and familiar Rhapsody regarding Prosaic, Poetic, and Dramatic Fiction, by Quintin Queerfellow, Gent.
MS. Montagu d. 25
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
On Fiction, or, a colloquial and familiar Rhapsody regarding Prosaic, Poetic, and Dramatic Fiction, by Quintin Queerfellow, Gent.
Shelfmark
MS. Montagu d. 25
Summary
'On Fiction, or, a colloquial and familiar Rhapsody regarding Prosaic, Poetic, and Dramatic Fiction, by Quintin Queerfellow, Gent.', a poem in four parts (see fols. 65, 115, 154), dealing chiefly with English Fiction of the 18th and early 19th centuries, in a long dialogue between a Poet and his friend: beg. 'Twas early in a morn of June.'
Two copies of an alphabetical index of authors mentioned are in the volume.
Date
written in about A.D. 1820
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
339 Leaves
Custodial history
Old (until about 1890) MS. Montagu no. 22.
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Collection contents
On Fiction, or, a colloquial and familiar Rhapsody regarding Prosaic, Poetic, and Dramatic Fiction, by Quintin Queerfellow, Gent.
