John Milton
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages · author page
Milton
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
Seventeenth-century English poet and pamphleteer cited as an early advocate of authors' copyright.
They had no John Miltons among them to speak for them.
John Milton, as early as 1644, speaking in behalf of the right of authors to print their thoughts freely without getting a license for each book, alluded to the subject of copyright, and said, “That part [of an order of parliament for licensing books] which preserves justly every man’s copy [right], or provides for the poor, I touch not” [do not object to].
If a greater insult can be conceived, it would seem to be, that authors, and such authors as John Milton, should be compelled to ask “license” of a king to print their own thoughts.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
English poet quoted in an editorial note for a line about Taprobane.
“And utmost Indian Isle Taprobane.
Milton speaks of it in Paradise Regained IV, 75:
The Rights of War and Peace
English poet referenced as a standard of literary excellence.
Landor, of whom Swinburne has said that Milton alone stands higher, both in prose and verse, furnishes us with his Classical Conversations.
Law in a Free State
English poet cited as representative of a puritanical position that tolerates passion only within marriage.
For example, John Milton and his puritanical followers compound with the devil by admitting that the “passion” is wicked—'unless sanctified by marriage.