Isaac Watts
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Abbreviations: Bk. - Book | H - Hymn, 1707 ff. | HL - Horae Lyricae, 1706 ff. | Ps. - Psalm, 1717 ff. | Pt. - Part | Song - Songs for Children, 1720 | st. - stanza | vo. - voices
Life
Born: 17 July 1674
Died: 25 November 1748
Biography
Isaac Watts is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English writer of Christian lyrics. He is credited with the words of around 750 hymns, many of them taken from his paraphrases of the Psalms. He also wrote a book of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, which has been widely used as well. Many of his hymns remain in active use today and have been translated into many languages.
Publications
- Watts, Isaac. 1705. Horae Lyricae (Lyric Poems) Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, In Three Books. Second Edition, 1709.
- Watts, Isaac. 1707. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Second Edition, 1709; Third Edition 1712; Fourth Edition 1714.
- Watts, Isaac. 1719. The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark.
- Watts, Isaac. 1720. Divine and Moral Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, For the Use of Children. London.
References
- Anonymous. 1779. The Posthumous Works of the Late Learned and Reverend Isaac Watts, D. D. London: T. Becket and J. Bew. Volume 1, 239 pp.; Volume 2, 305 pp. Adjusted and published by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge.
- Anonymous. 1812-1813. The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. Leeds: Edward Baines. Volume 1, 1812, 627 pp. Volume 2, 1812, 614 pp. Volume 3, 1812, 622 pp. Volume 4, 1813, 635 pp. Volume 5, 1813. 598 pp. Volume 6, 1813, 660 pp. Volume 7, 1813. 590 pp. Volume 8, 1813, 578 pp. Volume 9, 1813, 562 pp. Volume 9 has An Essay on Psalmody, The Psalms of David, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Divine Songs for Childen, Lyric Poems, Reliquae Juveniles, and Remnants of Time.
- Guy, D. 1773. A Complete Index to Dr. Watts' Hymns. London: J. Buckland, G. Keith, J. Johnson, and D. Guy. 244 pp.
- Wright, Thomas. 1914. Isaac Watts and Contemporary Hymn-Writers. London: Farncombe and Sons. 280 pp.
External links
View the Wikipedia article on Isaac Watts.
Settings of his poetic works
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list below
- Acworth (Samuel Holyoke)
- Addison (Alexander Gillet)
- Admiration (Lemuel Babcock)
- All Saints (Alexander Gillet)
- America (Truman Wetmore)
- Arland (Samuel Holyoke)
- Aurora (Abijah Forbush)
- Before Jehovah's aweful throne (Louis Bourgeois)
- Before the Lord’s eternal throne (William Henry Monk)
- Behold the morning sun (Johann Friedrich Samuel Döring)
- Bellevue (Elkanah Dare)
- Benevolent Street (Oliver Shaw)
- Bethel (Anonymous)
- Blest is the man, who shuns the place (Friedrich Ernst Fesca)
- Boundbrook (Samuel Holyoke)
- Brixham (Samuel Holyoke)
- Brownson (Oliver Brownson)
- Bunker Hill (Abraham Wood)
- Burton (Elisha West)
- Bushwick (Samuel Holyoke)
- Buxton (Daniel Belknap)
- Caledonia (Samuel Holyoke)
- Calvary (Samuel Holyoke)
- Camden (Zedekiah Sanger)
- Castleton (Samuel Holyoke)
- Come, let us join our cheerful songs (Edward Vine Hall)
- Come, let us join our cheerful songs (Henry Lahee)
- Come, let us lift our joyful eyes (Karl Gotthelf Gläser)
- Come, sound His praise abroad (Harry Hale Pike)
- Complaint (Abijah Forbush)
- Complaint (Oliver Shaw)
- Congress (Anonymous)
- Consolation (Abijah Forbush)
- Consolation (Samuel Holyoke)
- Conviction (Abijah Forbush)
- Creation (Elisha West)
- Crisis (Abijah Forbush)
- Crucifixion (Abijah Forbush)
- Cyrene (Abijah Forbush)
- Dalton (Hezekiah Moors)
- Dartmouth (Daniel Belknap)
- Death's Alarm (Elisha West)
- Deerfield (Samuel Holyoke)
- Dissolution (Elisha West)
- Dresden (Oliver Brownson)
- Dunlap's Creek (S. McFarland)
- Eastborough (Samuel Holyoke)
- Easton (Samuel Holyoke)
- Edom (Elisha West)
- Elden (Samuel Holyoke)
- Ellington (Truman Wetmore)
- Ephesus (Samuel Holyoke)
- Exhortation (Eliakim Doolittle)
- Fairton (Elkanah Dare)
- Firmament (Daniel Read)
- Florida (Oliver Shaw)
- Freedom (Elisha West)
- Fruition (Truman Wetmore)
- Funeral Dirge (Hezekiah Moors)
- Germany (Samuel Holyoke)
- Give us the wings of faith (Ernest Bullock)
- Glasgow (Elkanah Dare)
- Granville (Truman Wetmore)
- Hague (Samuel Holyoke)
- Hallowell (Barnabas McKyes)
- Happiness (Abijah Forbush)
- Harmony (1807) (Elisha West)
- Harmony (Elisha West)
- Hatfield (Alexander Gillet)
- Haverhill (Elisha West)
- Holliston (Anonymous)
- How fine has the day been (John Fawcett)
- How pleasant, O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are (Herbert Sanders)
- Hush! My Dear (Cradle Song) (J. Guy Stalnaker)
- Imminence (Abijah Forbush)
- Invitation (Elisha West)
- I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Anonymous)
- Judgment (Elisha West)
- Kittery (William Billings)
- Lark (Elisha West)
- Leicester (Samuel Holyoke)
- Lewisburgh (Nehemiah Shumway)
- Liberty Hall (Lucius Chapin)
- Lincoln (Abraham Wood)
- Lord of the worlds above (William Croft)
- Love shall never die (Toney Smith)
- Lynn (Abijah Forbush)
- Machias (James Lyon)
- Messiah (Alexander Gillet)
- Millennium (Alexander Gillet)
- Millville (Elkanah Dare)
- Milton (Abijah Forbush)
- Milton (Elisha West)
- Montfort (Samuel Holyoke)
- Morgan (William Smith (compiler))
- Moriston (Susanna Heath)
- Morning (Daniel Read)
- Morning Hymn (Elisha West)
- Morning Song (Nathaniel Billings)
- Mournful Song (Elisha West)
- Nature with open volume stands (Nathanael Gawthorn)
- New Springfield (Nathaniel Billings)
- Ninety-Fifth (Lucius Chapin)
- Ninety-Fifth (Oliver Brownson)
- Norfolk (Samuel Holyoke)
- Norway (Oliver Shaw)
- O God our help (Ernest A. Dicks)
- Oak's Creek (Nathaniel Billings)
- Oh, were I like a feather'd dove (Anonymous)
- Ohio (Elisha West)
- Orleans (Samuel Holyoke)
- Portland (Samuel Holyoke)
- Precept (Elisha West)
- Prodigal (Elisha West)
- Protection (Abijah Forbush)
- Refuge (Daniel Read)
- Request (Barnabas McKyes)
- Resurrection (Barnabas McKyes)
- Richmond (Daniel Belknap)
- Rise for the Earth (Sophia Green)
- Rockbridge (Lucius Chapin)
- Rosedale (Samuel Holyoke)
- Roslin Castle (Elisha West)
- Salem (Abijah Forbush)
- Salvation (Elisha West)
- Schenectady (Nehemiah Shumway)
- Sharon (Abijah Forbush)
- Sharon (Elisha West)
- Shirley (Daniel Belknap)
- Solemnity (Eliakim Doolittle)
- Solitude (Elisha West)
- Solitude (Lemuel Babcock)
- Stafford (Oliver Brownson)
- Sterling (Samuel Holyoke)
- Submission (Samuel Holyoke)
- Sutton (Oliver Brownson)
- Sympathy (William Read)
- Taunton (Oliver Shaw)
- Tennessee (Abijah Forbush)
- The heavens declare thy glory, Lord (Anonymous)
- The heavens declare thy glory, Lord (Jeremiah Clarke)
- The heavens declare thy glory, Lord (William Knapp)
- This is the day the Lord hath made (Anonymous)
- Thornhill (Samuel Holyoke)
- Torringford (Alexander Gillet)
- True Devotion (Oliver Holden)
- Trumpet (Oliver Brownson)
- Twenty-Fourth (Amzi Chapin)
- Venus (Elisha West)
- Victory (Hezekiah Moors)
- Vienna (Elisha West)
- Walbridge (Samuel Holyoke)
- Waterfield (Samuel Holyoke)
- Wellington (Samuel Holyoke)
- Westborough (Lemuel Babcock)
- Weybossett Street (Oliver Shaw)
- When I survey the wondrous Cross (Edward Miller)
- When I survey the wondrous cross (James Leach)
- When the fierce north wind (John Whitaker)
- Willington (Elisha West)
- Windsor (Daniel Read)
- Windsor (Elisha West)
- Winthrop (Samuel Holyoke)
- Ye tribes of Adam join (Thomas Clark)
- Zion (Hezekiah Moors)
- Zion (Oliver Shaw)
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