British Literature, 1640-1789
Subtitle: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers, 3)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780631197393
First sentence: Milton's Areopagitica is buried under the weight of its own celebrity: it has turned into a quarry of fine and somewhat empty phrases, legitimizing the belief that in modern liberal societies a near-universal freedom of speech has been attained.