John Milton belongs to the most important English poets and prose polemicists ever. One of his biographs wrote about him: “He was the greatest of all human beings: the noblest and the ennobler of mankind. He has steadily grown in the world's reverence, and his fame will still increase with the lapse of ages.”
Contents:
Of Reformation In England, And The Causes That Hitherto Have Hindered It.
Of Prelatical Episcopacy,
The Reason Of Church-Government Urged Against Prelaty.
Animadversions Opon The Remonstrant's Defence Against Smectymnuus.
An Apology For Smectymnuus.
Of Education.
Areopagitica: A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing.
The Doctrine And Discipline Of Divorce;
The Judgment Of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce.
Tetrachordon. Expositions Upon The Four Chief Passages Of Colasterion. A Reply To A Nameless Answer Against The Doctrine
The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates:
Observations On The Articles Of Peace,
The Portraiture Of His Majesty In His Solitudes And Sufferings.
A Defence Of The People Of England, In Answer To Salmasius's
Brief Notes Upon A Late Sermon, Titled, The Fear Of God And The King.
The History Of Britain, That Part Especially Now Called England,
Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration; And What Best Means May Be Used Against The Growth Of Popery.
A Brief History Of Moscovia, And Of Other Less Known Countries Lying Eastward Of Russia As Far As Cathay.
A Manifesto Of The Lord Protector Of The Commonwealth Of England, Scotland, Ireland, &C.
The Second Defence Of The People Of England, Against An Anonymous Libel
Familiar Epistles, Translated From The Latin, By Robert Fellowes, A. M. Oxon.
