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Books by John Milton
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Areopagitica
right|thumb|Des Wilson in 1987 as president of the Liberal Party, holding as symbol of his office a copy of Areopagitica '''''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.