Areopagitica
Title page circa 1644 | |
| Author | John Milton |
|---|---|
| Original title | Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England. |
| Language | Early Modern English |
| Genre | Speech, prose polemic |
Publication date | 1644 |
| Publication place | Kingdom of England |
| Pages | 30 pages |
| 323.445 | |
| LC Class | Z657 .M66 |
| Text | Areopagitica at Wikisource |
Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right.