Who is John Milton?

Here's a great essay in today's Financial Post about John Milton. I knew some great things about him -- especially about his argument for freedom of the press, published in a pamphlet titled Areopagitica, which you can read here.

Here's an excerpt from the Post's essay, written by Robert Sibley:

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." To be sure, as scholar Daniel Sullivan observes, Milton initially expresses a willingness to suppress writing that is atheistic, blasphemous, treasonous or scandalous but, by the end of the essay, he suggests that even these concerns might not justify censorship.