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Anna Seward, engraving 1799. Anna Seward (12 December 1742 – 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education.
Anna Seward. 1742–1809. by Tilly Kettle, National Portrait Gallery. Born in Derbyshire, British Romantic poet and novelist Anna Seward was the daughter of a clergyman and the only one of four children to reach adulthood.
Anna Seward (1742–1809), English poet, literary critic, and intellectual best known for the long poems Elegy on Captain Cook (1780) and Monody on Major Andre (1781). She fostered a close-knit network of friends and correspondents and drew the notice of writers prominent within the Romantic movement.
Anna Seward was born in 1747 in Derbyshire, England. Known as the "Swan of Lichfield," she was the author of several works of poetry.
Anna Seward was an English Romantic poet who earned the title "The Swan of Lichfield" for her acclaimed literary salon in her hometown. While her fame in her own time derived from her letters and her biography of Erasmus Darwin, today she is best remembered for her poetry.
Dec 11, 2015 · A little gem of a cat poem – Anna Seward’s touching ‘An Old Cat’s Dying Soliloquy’. Anna Seward (1742-1809) was an English poet who was known as the ‘Swan of Lichfield’ and even ‘ th’immortal Muse of Britain ‘.
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Seward in queer studies. Adjunct lecturer and Ph.D. candidate, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research is concerned with 18th-century women poets, old age, queerness, identity, and self-representation. She is the author...
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