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Two new poems by Anna Seward. (Essays).(Poem)(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20030622
Author:Jung, Sandro

The British Library holds two manuscript poems (BL MS Add. 61842, pp. 41-42) by Anna Seward (1747-1809) that have never been printed and, for that reason, never been included in the official canon of Seward. To this day, Sir Walter Scott's edition of The Poetical Works of Anna Seward (1810) has served as the basis for studies of Seward's poetry; that three-volume edition, however, does not contain the poems reproduced here.

The dating of the two poems has to remain speculative although they cannot have been written earlier than 1761 when Seward first became acquainted with ...

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