James Merrick

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Life

Born: 1720

Died: 1769

Biography

James Merrick was an English poet and scholar: selections from his metrical versions of the first 75 psalms (1765) were made by the Rev. William Dechair Tattersall, and published with music in Tattersall's collection Improved Psalmody (1794).

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Publications

  • Merrick, James. 1765. The Psalms Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse. Reading, England: J. Carnan. 337 pp.

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