num_pages: 384
description: 'He who destroys a good book kills reason itself'John Milton is renowned for his poetry yet during most of his lifetime he was best known as a writer of prose both celebrated and denounced for his fiery polemics in an era of religious and political controversy radical pamphleteering and civil war. This annotated edition of his major English prose writings includes Milton's tractates in favour of divorce on progressive education in defence of the execution of Charles I and the new Republican state and Areopagitica his famous attack on censorship and call for a free press. Rhetorical powerful heterodox these are monuments to the ideals of liberty and free speech from a master of English prose.
language: English
title: Areopagitica and Other Writings
publisher: Penguin