Areopagitica (1644)
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by John Milton (1644)
A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England
"If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say. And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? The windows also, and the balconies must be thought on; there are shrewd books, with dangerous frontispieces, set to sale; who shall prohibit them, shall twenty licensers? The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler. . . . "
(Richard Rhodes read this at the Tulsa Nimrod conference, as part of his masterful keynote talk on Metamorphosis and Change. I've never been a big Milton fan, but this brought tears to my eyes - for the beauty of the cadence, and also because - as I said in my talk the following day - Time and Fashion have silenced all the airs and madrigals that used to whisper in our chambers.)
by John Milton (1644)
A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England
"If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say. And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? The windows also, and the balconies must be thought on; there are shrewd books, with dangerous frontispieces, set to sale; who shall prohibit them, shall twenty licensers? The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler. . . . "
(Richard Rhodes read this at the Tulsa Nimrod conference, as part of his masterful keynote talk on Metamorphosis and Change. I've never been a big Milton fan, but this brought tears to my eyes - for the beauty of the cadence, and also because - as I said in my talk the following day - Time and Fashion have silenced all the airs and madrigals that used to whisper in our chambers.)
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