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Areopagitica

Author
John Milton
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
52 pages
ISBN
9781911535065
Published
3 September 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • John Milton
  • poetry
  • Romantic Age
  • Romanticism
  • mystic
  • mysticism
  • poetic
  • soul
  • human soul
  • illumination

Description

Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Today, Areopagitica is regarded as one of the most eloquent defences of press freedom ever written – and as one of the most influential, because many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.

Author

John Milton (1608–1674) wrote the English epic that still defines the language of heaven and hell. Paradise Lost, composed in blank verse after the Civil War and in the darkness of his blindness, retells the Fall with a grandeur that makes Satan magnetic and Adam and Eve painfully human. Milton was also a polemicist for liberty — of press, of conscience, of the commonwealth — and a civil servant under Cromwell.