![]() Title page circa 1644 | |
Author | John Milton |
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Original title | Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England. |
Language | Early Modern English |
Genre | Speech, prose polemic |
Publication date | 1644 |
Publication place | Kingdom of England |
Pages | 30 pages |
323.445 | |
LC Class | Z657 .M66 |
Text | Areopagitica at Wikisource |
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.