সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরন : Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parlament of England is an 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.