Why was Anna Seward’s epic Telemachus not published during her lifetime?

Anna Seward’s epic poem Telemachus was not published during her lifetime primarily because she never finished the work. Although she began working on the epic by at least 1798 and regarded it as superior to anything else she had produced, the project remained incomplete at the time of her death in 1809. Furthermore, while Walter Scott was entrusted with the copyright of her works, he did not comply with her wish to see the poem published. The work remained unpublished until 2016.1