A review by garleighc
Areopagitica by John Milton

4.0

Despite all the beautiful prose, whole sections where Milton is comparing books to food and comparing books to life itself, I'm still not completely sure I understand the whole dang thing. This rhetoric was so complex, involved, and imaginative that I can't even begin to understand the nuances behind his argument. I love the part where he speaks on the testing of virtues and describes how choice is actually the virtue, not just doing good things; one has to consciously make the choice to partake in good and not evil. I'm getting Paradise Lost vibes already and it makes me excited.