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Areopagitica A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing to the Parliament of England
by John Milton
Reprint of the 1890 Grolier Club edition, which was limited to 325 copies. The victory of Parliament over Crown during the Civil War prompted many questions including those regarding the liberty of the press under the new regime. The Stationers Company, which enjoyed Royal patronage and a monopoly on printing and bookselling granted by the Crown, petitioned Parliament for the continuation of its privileges under the new regime. This was a controversial request because Milton and others resented the Company's censorship of political and religious publications in the years before the Civil War. Milton [1608-1674], in what has been called his "most important" prose, urged Parliament to reject its petition in the name of intellectual freedom. This edition has a long introduction by James Russell Lowell [1819-1891], the notable poet and associate of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
LawCivil RightsMedia & the LawPolitical ScienceCensorship
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
LENGTH189
LANGUAGEEN
John Milton was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton
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Areopagitica A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing to the Parliament of England
by John Milton
Reprint of the 1890 Grolier Club edition, which was limited to 325 copies. The victory of Parliament over Crown during the Civil War prompted many questions including those regarding the liberty of the press under the new regime. The Stationers Company, which enjoyed Royal patronage and a monopoly on printing and bookselling granted by the Crown, petitioned Parliament for the continuation of its privileges under the new regime. This was a controversial request because Milton and others resented the Company's censorship of political and religious publications in the years before the Civil War. Milton [1608-1674], in what has been called his "most important" prose, urged Parliament to reject its petition in the name of intellectual freedom. This edition has a long introduction by James Russell Lowell [1819-1891], the notable poet and associate of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
LawCivil RightsMedia & the LawPolitical ScienceCensorship
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
LENGTH189
LANGUAGEEN
John Milton was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton
