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.