Areopagitica

Areopagitica
Title page circa 1644
AuthorJohn Milton
Original titleAreopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England.
LanguageEarly Modern English
GenreSpeech, prose polemic
Publication date
1644
Publication placeKingdom of England
Pages30 pages
323.445
LC ClassZ657 .M66
TextAreopagitica at Wikisource
Des Wilson in 1987 as president of the Liberal Party, holding as symbol of his office a copy of Areopagitica

Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing.[1] Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right.

  1. ^ Milton, John (1644). Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing to the Parliament of England (1 ed.). London. Retrieved 1 February 2016. via Google Books