Areopagitica

Three hundred and fifty-nine years ago, the poet John Milton wrote a speech with the title Areopagitica, addressed to the Parliament of England.

The Future Needs Us! Dyson, Freeman 2003

Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to free expression.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to free expression.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

Argument, as Milton argued in his Areopagitica, is "knowledge in the making" – a source of strength and regeneration for a political movement.

Ed Miliband needs trade unions Hilary Wainwright 2010

In 1644 he produced what most agree to be the finest of his prose works, the address to Parliament called Areopagitica, a tremendous attack on censorship that can still enliven modern argument about press freedom.

Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009

In attacking the cloistered monks and nuns of my Roman Catholic Church, the brilliant, if occasionally logorrheic, John Milton wrote in his defense of free speech, "Areopagitica," that "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed."

How I Learned Not to Fear the Anti-God Squad Maurice O'Sullivan 2009

He is best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" and for his treatise condemning censorship, "Areopagitica".

Archive 2009-12-06 Toby O'B 2009

He is best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" and for his treatise condemning censorship, "Areopagitica".

AS SEEN ON TV: JOHN MILTON Toby O'B 2009

Above all his pamphlet "Areopagitica" will remain a sacred text for anyone who believes in free speech -- not so much for the limited applications of the doctrine that he proposes as for the fervor with which he upholds the general principle.

Cosmic and Sublime 2008

Above all his pamphlet "Areopagitica" will remain a sacred text for anyone who believes in free speech -- not so much for the limited applications of the doctrine that he proposes as for the fervor with which he upholds the general principle.

Cosmic and Sublime 2008