Furtherreading
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FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Arthur Paul Davis, Isaac Watts: His Life and Works (New York: Dryden, 1943), pp. 271-295.
- Harry Escott, Isaac Watts: Hymnographer (London: Independent, 1962), pp. 285-296.
- Thomas Gibbons, Memoirs of I. Watts (London, 1750); revised and enlarged as Memoirs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. (London: Printed for James Buckland & Thomas Gibbons, 1780).
- Samuel Johnson, "Watts," in his Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 10 volumes (London: Printed by J. Nichols for C. Bathurst, 1779-1781); modern edition published as Lives of the English Poets, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, 3 volumes (New York: Octagon, 1967).
- Thomas Milner, The Life, Times and Correspondence of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. (London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1834).
- Edwin Paxton Hood, Isaac Watts; His Life and Writings, His Homes and Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, 1875).
- Arthur Paul Davis, Isaac Watts: His Life and Works (New York: Dryden, 1943).
- Margaret Anne Doody, The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
- Martha Winburn England and John Sparrow, Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers (New York: New York Public Library, 1966), pp. 113-147.
- Harry Escott, Isaac Watts: Hymnographer (London: Independent, 1962).
- John Hoyles, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1640-1740: Studies in the Thought and Poetry of Henry More, John Norris, and Isaac Watts (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1971).
- Madeleine Forell Marshall and Janet Todd, "Isaac Watts's Divine Delight," in their English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982), pp. 28-59 and passim.
