Concluding Thoughts - Hacking Abolition (8)

It is important to understand More’s poetry through her published poetics, with a return to her writing about her own writing. 

More attributes her success with readers in large part to “a disposition in the public mind to encourage, in these days of alarm, attack, and agitation, any productions of which the tendency is favourable to good order and Christian morals” (Complete Works 17). More’s “poetry was essentially a medium of teaching and information rather than exploration” (“More’s Publ...