Isaac Watts

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Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• THE Absence of the Beloved. ()
• Against Tears. The beginning of Ode 23. Book 4. of Casimire Imitated. Si, quae flent mala, lugubres Auferrent Oculi, &c. ()
• BEWAILING My own Inconstancy. ()
• Breathing towards the Heavenly Country. Casimire. Book I. Od. 19. Imitated. Urit me Patriae Decor, &c. ()
• Brotherly Love. PSALM CXXXIII. ()
• Christ's Amazing Love AND My Amazing Coldness. ()
• Confession and Pardon. ()
• A CRADLE HYMN. ()
• THE Day of Judgment. An ODE, Attempted in English Sapphick. ()
• DEATH A Welcome Messenger. ()
• THE Death of MOSES, Deut. xxxii. 49, 50. and xxxiv. 5, 6. ()
• THE Divine Sovereignty. ()
• Doubts and Fears SUPPRES'D. PSALM III. ()
• Duty to God and our Neighbour. ()
• AN ELEGY ON THE Reverend Mr. Tho. Gouge. ()
• AN EPITAPH ON King WILLIAM III. Of Glorious Memory, Who Died March 8th. 1701. ()
• Forsaken, yet Hoping. ()
• Free Philosophy. ()
• FRIENDSHIP. ()
• A Funeral POEM ON Thomas Gunston Esq ()
• THE GLORIES of GOD Exceed all Worship. ()
• GOD Appears most Glorious IN OUR Salvation by CHRIST. ()
• GOD Incomprehensible. ()
• GOD Sovereign and Gracious. ()
• GOD's Infinity. ()
• THE HAPPY SAINT AND Cursed Sinner. PSALM I. ()
• THE HAZARD OF Loving the Creatures. ()
• [Hymn I.] The Hosanna; or Salvation ascribed to CHRIST. ()
• [Hymn II.] GLORY to the FATHER and the SON, &c. ()
• AN Hymn of Praise TO The God of ENGLAND, FOR Three Great Salvations. (VIZ.) ()
• JESUS THE Only SAVIOUR. ()
• The Law and Gospel. ()
• LONGING FOR HEAVEN, OR, THE Song of Angels Above. ()
• LONGING FOR The Second Coming OF CHRIST. ()
• THE Love of CHRIST ON His CROSS AND On His THRONE. ()
• [MORAL SONG] I. The SLUGGARD. ()
• [MORAL SONG] II. Innocent Play. ()
• [MORAL SONG] III. The ROSE. ()
• [MORAL SONG] IV. The THIEF. ()
• [MORAL SONG] V. The ANT or EMMET. ()
• [MORAL SONG] VI. Good Resolutions. ()
• ON The Sudden Death OF Mrs. Mary Peacock. ()
• Our Saviour's Golden Rule. ()
• THE PLEASURE OF Love to CHRIST Present or Absent. ()
• Praise to the LORD FROM All NATIONS. PSALM C. ()
• THE REVERSE; ON THE View of some of my Friends remaining Comforts. ()
• Sick of Love. Solom. Song, i. 3. ()
• SICKNESS GIVES A Sight of HEAVEN. ()
• A Sight of CHRIST. ()
• Sincere Praise. ()
• Sitting in an Arbour. ()
• SONG I. A general Song of Praise to GOD. ()
• SONG II. Praise for Creation and Providence. ()
• SONG III. Praise to GOD for our Redemption. ()
• SONG IV. Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal. ()
• A Song of Praise TO GOD. PSALM C. In Trissyllable Feet. ()
• SONG V. Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land. ()
• SONG VI. Praise for the Gospel. ()
• SONG VII. The Excellency of the BIBLE. ()
• SONG VIII. Praise to GOD for learning to Read. ()
• SONG IX. The All-seeing GOD. ()
• SONG X. Solemn Thoughts of GOD and Death. ()
• SONG XI. Heaven and Hell. ()
• SONG XII. The Advantages of early Religion. ()
• SONG XIII. The Danger of Delay. ()
• SONG XIV. Examples of early Piety. ()
• SONG XV. Against Lying. ()
• SONG XVI. Against Quarrelling and Fighting. ()
• SONG XVII. Love between Brothers and Sisters. ()
• SONG XVIII. Against Scoffing and calling Names. ()
• SONG XIX. Against Swearing, and Cursing, and taking God's Name in vain. ()
• SONG XX. Against Idleness and Mischief. ()
• SONG XXI. Against Evil Company. ()
• SONG XXII. Against Pride in Clothes. ()
• SONG XXIII. Obedience to Parents. ()
• SONG XXIV. The Child's Complaint. ()
• SONG XXV. A MORNING SONG: ()
• SONG XXVI. An EVENING SONG. ()
• SONG XXVII. For the LORD's-DAY MORNING. ()
• SONG XXVIII. For the LORD'S-DAY EVENING. ()
• THE Sufferings and Glories OF CHRIST. A SONG In Trisyllable Feet. ()
• A SUMMER EVENING. ()
• The TEN COMMANDMENTS, out of the Old Testament, put into short Rhyme for Children. ()
• TO David Polhill Esq ()
• TO David Polhill Esq ()
• TO Dr. JOHN SPEED of Southampton. ()
• TO Dr. Thomas Gibson. ()
• TO Her MAJESTY. ()
• TO John Hartopp Esq ()
• TO John Hartopp Esq ()
• TO Mr. A. S. and Mr. T. H. ()
• TO Mr. C. and S. Fleetwood. ()
• TO Mr. Henry Bendish. ()
• TO Mr. John Lock Retired from The World of Business. ()
• TO Mr. JOHN SHUTE ON Mr. LOCK's Dangerous Sickness sometime after he had retired to study the Scriptures. ()
• TO Mr. Nicholas Clark. ()
• TO Mr. Robert Atwood. ()
• TO Mr. William Blackbourn. ()
• TO My Brothers E. and T. W. ()
• TO My Sisters S. and M. W. ()
• TO Nathanael Gould Esq ()
• TO THE Discontented and Unquiet. ()
• TO THE Reverend Mr. B. Rowe. ()
• To the Reverend Mr. John Howe. ()
• To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord CUTTS. [At the Siege of Namure.] ()
• TO Thomas Gunston Esq ()
• THE Transcendent Glories OF THE DEITY. ()
• THE Universal Hallelujah, OR, PSALM 148. PARAPHRAS'D. ()
• UPON The Dismal Narrative OF THE Afflictions of a Friend. ()
• Wishing him ever with me. ()
• A Word of Warning, OR Few Happy Marriages. ()

• Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Horæ lyricæ: Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. ... By I. Watts. London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence at the Sign of the Angel in the Poultrey. MDCCVI., 1706. [20],267,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T82397; OTA K067329.000)
  • THE Divine Sovereignty.
  • THE Transcendent Glories OF THE DEITY.
  • GOD Appears most Glorious IN OUR Salvation by CHRIST.
  • AN Hymn of Praise TO The God of ENGLAND, FOR Three Great Salvations. (VIZ.)
  • GOD Incomprehensible.
  • SICKNESS GIVES A Sight of HEAVEN.
  • THE Universal Hallelujah, OR, PSALM 148. PARAPHRAS'D.
  • THE Love of CHRIST ON His CROSS AND On His THRONE.
  • DEATH A Welcome Messenger.
  • Sincere Praise.
  • GOD's Infinity.
  • LONGING FOR The Second Coming OF CHRIST.
  • THE Sufferings and Glories OF CHRIST. A SONG In Trisyllable Feet.
  • THE Day of Judgment. An ODE, Attempted in English Sapphick.
  • Confession and Pardon.
  • JESUS THE Only SAVIOUR.
  • A Song of Praise TO GOD. PSALM C. In Trissyllable Feet.
  • THE HAPPY SAINT AND Cursed Sinner. PSALM I.
  • Doubts and Fears SUPPRES'D. PSALM III.
  • Praise to the LORD FROM All NATIONS. PSALM C.
  • Brotherly Love. PSALM CXXXIII.
  • THE PLEASURE OF Love to CHRIST Present or Absent.
  • A Sight of CHRIST.
  • LONGING FOR HEAVEN, OR, THE Song of Angels Above.
  • GOD Sovereign and Gracious.
  • THE HAZARD OF Loving the Creatures.
  • Christ's Amazing Love AND My Amazing Coldness.
  • Wishing him ever with me.
  • THE Absence of the Beloved.
  • Sick of Love. Solom. Song, i. 3.
  • Sitting in an Arbour.
  • BEWAILING My own Inconstancy.
  • Forsaken, yet Hoping.
  • The Law and Gospel.
  • THE Death of MOSES, Deut. xxxii. 49, 50. and xxxiv. 5, 6.
  • Breathing towards the Heavenly Country. Casimire. Book I. Od. 19. Imitated. Urit me Patriae Decor, &c.
  • THE GLORIES of GOD Exceed all Worship.
  • TO Her MAJESTY.
  • TO Mr. John Lock Retired from The World of Business.
  • TO Mr. JOHN SHUTE ON Mr. LOCK's Dangerous Sickness sometime after he had retired to study the Scriptures.
  • FRIENDSHIP.
  • TO Nathanael Gould Esq
  • TO Dr. Thomas Gibson.
  • TO My Brothers E. and T. W.
  • TO Mr. A. S. and Mr. T. H.
  • ON The Sudden Death OF Mrs. Mary Peacock.
  • TO THE Reverend Mr. B. Rowe.
  • TO My Sisters S. and M. W.
  • TO Mr. C. and S. Fleetwood.
  • TO Mr. William Blackbourn.
  • TO Mr. Robert Atwood.
  • Free Philosophy.
  • To the Reverend Mr. John Howe.
  • TO Mr. Nicholas Clark.
  • UPON The Dismal Narrative OF THE Afflictions of a Friend.
  • THE REVERSE; ON THE View of some of my Friends remaining Comforts.
  • To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord CUTTS. [At the Siege of Namure.]
  • Against Tears. The beginning of Ode 23. Book 4. of Casimire Imitated. Si, quae flent mala, lugubres Auferrent Oculi, &c.
  • A Word of Warning, OR Few Happy Marriages.
  • TO Mr. Henry Bendish.
  • TO David Polhill Esq
  • TO David Polhill Esq
  • TO THE Discontented and Unquiet.
  • TO John Hartopp Esq
  • TO Thomas Gunston Esq
  • TO John Hartopp Esq
  • TO Dr. JOHN SPEED of Southampton.
  • A Funeral POEM ON Thomas Gunston Esq
  • AN ELEGY ON THE Reverend Mr. Tho. Gouge.
  • AN EPITAPH ON King WILLIAM III. Of Glorious Memory, Who Died March 8th. 1701.
• Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Divine songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children. By I. Watts, D.D. London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; and E. and C. Dilly, 1777. xii,58,[2]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T185045; OTA K123515.000)
  • SONG I. A general Song of Praise to GOD.
  • SONG II. Praise for Creation and Providence.
  • SONG III. Praise to GOD for our Redemption.
  • SONG IV. Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal.
  • SONG V. Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land.
  • SONG VI. Praise for the Gospel.
  • SONG VII. The Excellency of the BIBLE.
  • SONG VIII. Praise to GOD for learning to Read.
  • SONG IX. The All-seeing GOD.
  • SONG X. Solemn Thoughts of GOD and Death.
  • SONG XI. Heaven and Hell.
  • SONG XII. The Advantages of early Religion.
  • SONG XIII. The Danger of Delay.
  • SONG XIV. Examples of early Piety.
  • SONG XV. Against Lying.
  • SONG XVI. Against Quarrelling and Fighting.
  • SONG XVII. Love between Brothers and Sisters.
  • SONG XVIII. Against Scoffing and calling Names.
  • SONG XIX. Against Swearing, and Cursing, and taking God's Name in vain.
  • SONG XX. Against Idleness and Mischief.
  • SONG XXI. Against Evil Company.
  • SONG XXII. Against Pride in Clothes.
  • SONG XXIII. Obedience to Parents.
  • SONG XXIV. The Child's Complaint.
  • SONG XXV. A MORNING SONG:
  • SONG XXVI. An EVENING SONG.
  • SONG XXVII. For the LORD's-DAY MORNING.
  • SONG XXVIII. For the LORD'S-DAY EVENING.
  • The TEN COMMANDMENTS, out of the Old Testament, put into short Rhyme for Children.
  • Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
  • Duty to God and our Neighbour.
  • [Hymn I.] The Hosanna; or Salvation ascribed to CHRIST.
  • [Hymn II.] GLORY to the FATHER and the SON, &c.
  • [MORAL SONG] I. The SLUGGARD.
  • [MORAL SONG] II. Innocent Play.
  • [MORAL SONG] III. The ROSE.
  • [MORAL SONG] IV. The THIEF.
  • [MORAL SONG] V. The ANT or EMMET.
  • [MORAL SONG] VI. Good Resolutions.
  • A SUMMER EVENING.
  • A CRADLE HYMN.

Source editions

• Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Horæ lyricæ: Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. ... By I. Watts. London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence at the Sign of the Angel in the Poultrey. MDCCVI., 1706. [20],267,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T82397; OTA K067329.000)
• Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Divine songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children. By I. Watts, D.D. London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; and E. and C. Dilly, 1777. xii,58,[2]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T185045; OTA K123515.000)

Bibliography

ODNB 28888; DMI 2295; DLB 95

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 4 Sterne-Young. 511-534. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• Bishop, Selma L., ed. Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1748. A study in early eighteenth century language changes. London: Faith Press, 1962. Print.
• Jackson, Gordon, ed. Isaac Watts: Selected poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1999. Print.

Bibliography

• Bishop, Selma L. Isaac Watts's Hymns and spiritual songs, 1707: a publishing history and a bibliography. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1974. Print.

Biography

• Beynon, Graham. Isaac Watts: His Life and Thought. Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 2013. Print.
• Davis, Arthur P. Isaac Watts: His Life and Works. New York: Dryden Press, 1943. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 359-360. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=32931.

Criticism

• Arnold, Richard. Trinity of Discord: The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2012. Print.
• Beynon, Graham. Isaac Watts: reason, passion, and the revival of religion. London; Oxford; New York (N.Y.): Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016. Print.
• Davie, Donald, and Wright, Thomas F. The Language of the Eighteenth-Century Hymm. Los Angeles: Clark Memorial Library, UCLC, 1980. Print.
• Hoyles, John. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1640-1740: Studies in the Thought and Poetry of Henry More, John Norris and Isaac Watts. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1971. Print.
• Kickel, Katherine. Aesthetics and theology in Samuel Johnson's Life of Isaac Watts and Prayers and Meditations (1785). New, Melvyn; Reedy, Gerard, eds. Theology and literature in the age of Johnson: resisting secularism. Newark, NJ: Delaware UP; Lanham, MD; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. 147-161. Print.
• Knapp, John. Isaac Watts's unfixed hymn genre. Modern Philology 109(4) (2012): 463-482. Print.
• Maclear, J. F. Isaac Watts and the Idea of Public Religion. Journal of the History of Ideas 53(1) (1992): 25-45. Print.
• Marshall, Madeleine Forell. Teaching the Uncanonized: The Examples of Watts and Rowe. Fox, Christopher, ed. Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry. New York: AMS, 1990. 1-24. Print.
• Mason, Emma. Devotional Poetry. Lynch, Jack, ed. The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry: 1660-1800. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 563-578. Print.
• Plett, James Wendall. The poetic language of Isaac Watts's hymns. Unpub. doct. diss., University of California, Riverside, 1986. Print. [Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (47) 2598A.]
• Reynolds, Margaret. The Child in Poetry: Foundlings, Lostlings, Changelings. Proceedings of the British Academy 151. Oxford: Oxford UP, for British Academy, 2007. Print.
• Wakely-Mulroney, Katherine. Isaac Watts and the Dimensions of Child Interiority. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39(1) (2016): 103-119. Print.
• Wakely-Mulroney, Katherine, and Louise Joy, eds. The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: a study of children's verse in English. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, New York: Routledge, 2018. Print.
• Watson, J. R. The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study. Oxford: OUP, 1997. 133-170. Print.
• Wendeln, Ronald A. Isaac Watt's Horae lyricae as dissenting conversion literature. Unpub. doct. diss., Boston College, 1978. Print.