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A major new edition of Milton’s selected works of prose, including his political and doctrinal writings and the famous Areopagitica
 
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 Paradise Lost 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 Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.

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 repre

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“An engaging, accessible, and reliable introduction to Milton’s prose . . . Sprightly, purposeful, and crisp [with a] deft and lucid introduction . . . The editorial apparatus is economical but pertinent. . . . [The] notes are always relevant and reliable.” —Milton Quarterly

Areopagitica and Other Writings

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 6 November 2014
      ISBN-13 9780140439069
      978-0140439069
      ISBN-10 0140439064

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A major new edition of Milton’s selected works of prose, including his political and doctrinal writings and the famous Areopagitica
       
      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 Paradise Lost 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 Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.

      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 repre

      Trade Review
      “An engaging, accessible, and reliable introduction to Milton’s prose . . . Sprightly, purposeful, and crisp [with a] deft and lucid introduction . . . The editorial apparatus is economical but pertinent. . . . [The] notes are always relevant and reliable.” —Milton Quarterly

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