John Milton

John Milton's narrative poems have thrilled, challenged---and sometimes dismayed---readers for centuries. As your students immerse themselves in the epic Paradise Lost and its companion Paradise Regained, they'll discover a profound exploration of man's disobedience, the moral problems of God's justice, and an explanation of things both divine and human. 369 pages, softcover from Signet.

An uncompromising defender of liberty as well as a sublime poet, John Milton published the "Areopagitica" in 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. The impetus arose from Parliament's Licensing Order, which censored all printed materials and ultimately led to arrests, book burnings, and other authoritarian abuses. Milton's polemic, strengthened by biblical and classical allusions, remains enduringly significant and ranks among the world's most eloquent defenses of the right to free speech. 192 pages, paperback.

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