Areopagitica and Other Writings
Author(s): John Milton
John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is remembered first and foremost for his poetry, but his great epic Paradise Lost was published very late in his life, in 1667, and in his own time most readers more readily recognised Milton as a writer of prose. This superbly annotated new book is an authoritative edition of Milton's major prose works, including Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract on the opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.281
- : 05 November 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 02 January 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : John Milton
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 828.408
- : 384
More About The Product
John Milton (1608-74) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the Eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. Dr William Poole is a tutorial fellow at New College, Oxford. He has published widely in the areas of early-modern literary, intellectual and scientific history.
