Areopagitica

by John Milton

Overview

Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England is a 1644 prose polemical tract by English author John Milton against censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression, which was written in opposition to licensing and censorship and is regarded as one of the most eloquent defences of press freedom ever written.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014539418
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	04/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	47 KB

About the Author

Author of the classic Paradise Lost.