Goode's Psalms

Goode's Psalms An Entire New Version of the Book of Psalms. William Goode* (1762-1816).  This collection was published in 1811, with a Second Edition in 1813 and a Third in 1816. It was presumably given the ‘Entire New’ title to distinguish it from the 1696 ‘New Version’ by Nahum Tate* and Nicholas Brady*, and from other predecessors such as Isaac Watts* and James Merrick*: in the Preface, Goode said that Watts’ The Psalms of David, 1719, was ‘simple and elegant’, but that it professed to be only an imitation of the Psalms in New Testament language; and Merrick’s Psalms (1765) was ‘too poetical and elegant, and intricate, for a general congregation.’  Goode’s aims were threefold:  ‘To keep...