CRITICISM

Benson, Louis F. “Dr. Watts' ‘Renovation of Psalmody.’” In The English Hymn: Its Development and Use In Worship, pp. 108-218, 1915. Reprint. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1962.

Analyzes Watts's impact and contributions to psalmody.

England, Martha Winburn, and John Sparrow. “Emily Dickinson and Isaac Watts.” In Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers, pp. 113-47. New York: New York Public Library, 1966.

Considers Watts's influence on the writings of Dickinson.

Marshall, Madeleine Forell. “Teaching the Uncanonized: The Examples of Watts and Rowe.” In Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, edited by Christopher Fox, pp. 1-24. New York: AMS Press, 1990.

Discusses how noncanonical authors such as Watts and Rowe should be taught to literature students.

Pinto, V. de S. “Isaac Watts and William Blake.” Review of English Studies 20, no. 79 (July 1944): 214-23.

Discusses the relationship between Watts's Divine Songs for Children and Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Wolosky, Shira. “Rhetoric or Not: Hymnal Tropes in Emily Dickinson and Isaac Watts.” New England Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 1988): 214-32.

Examines the relationship between the writings of Dickinson and Watts.

Additional coverage of Watts's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 95; Literature Resource Center; Reference Guide to English Literature, ed. 2; Something About the Author, Vol. 52.