More was ed­u­cat­ed at Eton and Christ’s Coll­ege, Cam­bridge, where he grad­u­at­ed in 1635, and be­came a Fel­low of the Coll­ege in 1639. He de­clined var­i­ous of­fers of high po­si­tion, and spent his time main­ly stu­dy­ing phi­lo­so­phy, and as a pri­vate tu­tor. His po­ems, col­lect­ed and ed­it­ed by Dr. Grossart, were in­clud­ed in the Chert­sey Wor­thies Lib­ra­ry. His works in­clude:

• Psychozoia, or the First Part of the Song of the Soul, Con­tain­ing a Christ­i­ano-Pla­ton­ic Dis­play of Life, 1640.
• Philosophical Po­ems, 1647 (re­pub­li­ca­tion, with ad­di­tions, of Psy­cho­zoia)
• Divine Di­a­logues with Di­vine Hymns, 1668
• Memoirs, pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in 1730

• Julian, pp. 769-70

1. Holy Son of God Most High, The
2. When Christ His Bo­dy Up Had Borne
   • Father, if Just­ly Still We Claim
   • On All the Earth Thy Spir­it Show­er