Artist's depiction of Milton for William Blake's poem "John Milton". (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1644, Englishman John Milton published Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England [sic]. Inspired by the similarly-named work of Isocrates in 4th century BCE, Milton (author of Paradise…
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