The Sluggered by Isaac Watts

Poem a Day is the original daily Poetry series featuring new poems by today's poets. We hope that you enjoy today's offering brought to you by the Academy of American Publics. The Sluggered by Isaac Watts was written in 1712, after he had suffered two bouts with illness. After his second illness in 1712,. Watts never regained full strength. He eventually found an open home with Sir Thomas and Lady Mary Abney for thirty-six years. This exceptional support produced an astonishing body of work—hims, poems, theological treatises, essays, and a popular textbook on logic. Samuel Johnson observed that, in Watts's case, notions of patronage and dependence were overpowered by