But Watts was doing far more than rendering the Psalms into metrical form, or even paraphrasing them, as is made clear in the title of his book The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New ...
In churches the Psalms were recited or sung in metrical paraphrases. When My song is love unknown (or rather the first, fourth, sixth and seventh of the seven stanzas) was published in The Anglican ...