ANNA SEWARD
\ˈanə sˈuːəd], \ˈanə sˈuːəd], \ˈa_n_ə s_ˈuː_ə_d]\
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A English poet; born at Eyam, Derbyshire, 1747; died at Lichfield, March 25, 1809. Her celebrity as a poet was obtained chiefly from her elegies upon her friend Major Andre (1781), and upon Captain Cook. She published: "Louisa", a poetical novel (1782), and "Sonnets" (1789). Sir Walter Scott published her "Poetical Works and Correspondence" (3 vols., 1810). She was called "The Swan of Lichfield".
By Charles Dudley Warner
