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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
in
The Female Geniad,
1791:
Miss Seward unites so many exquisite beauties in her poetry, that it would be difficult to pronounce where she excels the most. In 1779 she composed the Prize Monody on the death of Mr. Garrick; in 1780 she publish’d an Elegy on Captain Cooke; with a Hymn to the Sun; the unhappy fate of Major André received the same tribute. She has since written Louisa, her Poetical Novel (a new species of composition) and beside those already mentioned, several miscellaneous pieces.