ABSTRACT
Henry More (1614-87) was educated at Christ's College (too late to have known Milton) and remained there as a Fellow. He is best known for his association with the group known as Cambridge Platonists. His Platonism may have predisposed him to an appreciation of Spenser, in whom at any rate he took great interest and to whom as a poet he is both generally and locally indebted. Thomas Vaughan in The Man Mouse Taken in a Trap (1650) calls him 'a Poet in the Loll & Trot of Spencer' (sig. A2v) and seems to enjoy making other insulting reference to More's particular predilection for the poet.
