Talk:Henry More

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The proposed merger of spissitude into Henry More seems inadvisable, because even if it's a small article, spissitude reasonably comes up in other articles where More is not directly mentioned, as with fourth dimension. --Kaz 20:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't see any advantage to merging. If that is a genuine geometric term, why should it be merged into somebody's biography? Makes no sense.Dfass 00:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, if it were a genuine geometric term, you'd be right. But it isn't; that's precisely the point. It never caught on. So it doesn't deserve an article of its own, as though it were legitimate, current terminology. But a mention of it in Henry More's bio could be of some interest, and a redirect to that bio would do two things at once: Direct the reader to where relevant information can be found, and put it in context (a term proposed by Henry More, that never caught on). --Trovatore 01:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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infinitesimal
Henry More appears to have coined the term "infinitesimal" (modern latin) in 1655. Does anyone have additional information about this? Does More have any mathematical works? Tkuvho (talk) 14:36, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Opinions of More's Poetry - The Complete Poems of Dr Henry More ( 1614 - 1687 ) by Rev Alexander Grosart 1878
( Passing through - nothing here in this article of Henry More's poetry - so I went looking for some examples of it :-)

https://archive.org/stream/completepoemsofd00morerich#page/n43/mode/2up

The Complete Poems of Dr Henry More ( 1614 - 1687 ) by Rev Alexander Grosart LLD FSA - Chertsey Worthies' Library - Edinburgh University Press - 1878

This has an introductory chapter containing a biography which has more anecdotal details in it and a critical appraisal of his poetry. The largest section is of ( I ) Philosophical Poems, then smaller sections of ( II ) Minor Poems, ( III ) Divine Hymns, ( IV ) from Prose Works, ( V ) Quotations From The Classics, ( VI ) Occasional Poems, ( VII ) Glossarial Index.

I am in a bit of a rush, but there is a lot there for the inquiring mind to peruse ... Page XXXI Alexander Grosart reports [ romantic poet, Robert ] Southey's opinion of More as ' He is a most odd fellow, the veriest believer in ghosts, goblins, vampires. But I have not done full justice to him as a poet. Strange and sometimes uncouth as he is, there are lines and passages of the highest poetry and most exquisite beauty.' Southey MSS Chetham Library - elsewhere, quoting Campbell, Grosart of ' In fancy he is dark and lethergic ' ... ' His poetry is not, indeed, like a beautiful landscape on which the eye can repose, but may be compared to some curious grotto, whose gloomy labyrinths we might be curious to explore for the strange and mystic associations they create,' Specimens p.297 I Vol 8vo 1844 Campbell.

For the end of the preface to ' A Platonic Song of the Soul ' ( 2nd Edition, 1647 ) Henry More wrote a poem which concludes -

' ... But all are deaf Unto my muse, that is most lief To mine own self. So they nor blame My pleasant notes, nor praise the same. Nor do thou, Reader, rashly brand My rhymes 'fore thou them understand.'

As a modern reader, I find Henry More's style very accessible : his poems are easy to read, but definitely not so easily understood - they are plainly stated but have a surreal and dream-like quality, and the longer ones shift in their mood and focus from his observations of the natural world in the apparent facts of snails and spiders into his imagined heavenly world of hopes and fears and the contests therein between good and evil. Henry More was a sophisticated writer of Christian philosophy who was able to express himself well in both good prose and good poetry.

DaiSaw (talk) 23:59, 4 April 2015 (UTC)