Publisher's Synopsis
In the long and delicate history of Free Speech, John Milton is a name very few have heard of. It's an English name, a common name bestowed upon a not so common man.Born in 1608 to an England engulfed by political and religious upheaval, John Milton was a poet, polemicist, and scholar whose deep beliefs in Freedom and Self-Determination led him to produce some of his time's most brilliant literary works. Milton began writing poems at an early age and by the time he had completed his B.A. and M.A.
