Areopagitica And Other Writings Av John Milton

<b>A major new edition of Milton’s selected works of prose, including his political and doctrinal writings and the famous <i>Areopagitica</i></b><br> <br> John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is remembered first and foremost for his poetry, but his great epic <i>Paradise Lost</i> was published very late in his life, in 1667, and in his own time most readers more readily recognized Milton as a writer of prose. This superbly annotated new book is an authoritative edition of Milton’s major prose works, including <i>Of Education</i>,<i> The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates</i>, and the <i>Divorce</i> tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract opposing licensing and censorship, <i>Areopagitica.<br><br></i>For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics repres