George Sewell (died 1726) was an English physician and poet, known as a controversialist and hack writer.
Under financial pressure he became a booksellers' hack, publishing numerous poems, translations, and political and other pamphlets.
In early life Sewell inclined to Toryism, and was a bitter critic of Gilbert Burnet, whom he attacked in five pamphlets (1713–1715).
Sewell also wrote in the Tory interest Remarks upon a Pamphlet intituled [Observations upon the State of the Nation] (anon.)
Sewell's best-known literary work was his Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh, as it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1719; 5th edit.
He wrote the preface for Addison's Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, 1725, which include two translations by him (the Puppet-show, and The Barometer, pp. 29–32).
He assisted in the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1717), which was projected in competition with that of Samuel Garth, even if Sewell addressed him as "his dear friend" in a poem in his New Collection (anon.
He contributed to, and probably supervised, a volume of Sacred Miscellanies (circa 1713), and he prepared in 1717 an edition of the Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
Others publications were: Posthumous were: Tragedy of King Richard I, Essays and Poems, 1728; edited by his brother, Gregory Sewell.