Areopagitica

Areopagitica is a revolutionary pamphlet written by the renowned seventeenth-century poet John Milton, author of the eternal Paradise Lost. In this work, Milton addresses the English Parliament of the time to complain about censorship and defend freedom of speech and expression. Written amid the English civil war of the 1640s, Milton’s work takes its title after an ancient speech written by the Greek Isocrates and refers to an Athenian hill on which legendary tribunals used to meet. However, the