The author of this work intended it as a response to the Licensing Order of 1643, which he claimed to be a product of the Catholic machinations of the recently defunct Star Chamber.
The author of this work intended it as a response to the Licensing Order of 1643, which he claimed to be a product of the Catholic machinations of the recently defunct Star Chamber. Written during the English Civil War, it has been argued that the author based his viewpoint on John 8:32, and this emboldened his stand against perceived attempts by Parliament to censor writers and stifle certain rights guaranteed by previous laws. In this work, the author claims that books "contain a potency of life", and that "he who kills a good book, kills reason itself". Taking as inspiration the classical notions of freedom of publishing and freedom of speech, the author, who is perhaps more famous for his poetry concerning the fall of man and his eventual redemption, especially draws upon the writings of the Athenian orator Isocrates. FTP, what is this polemical pamphlet of John Milton, which takes its title from the hill in Athens that was the site of tribunals which Isocrates wished to restore?
The author of this work intended it as a response to the Licensing Order of 1643, which he claimed to be a product of the Catholic machinations of the recently defunct Star Chamber.
{Areopagitica} (also accept: Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England)