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Delighted to see introduction of Persuasion Classics, at a dangerous moment in our history when such texts may disappear from university curricula. None better to begin with than Milton. David Bromwich does well to link the Areopagitica with Paradise

Lost. No “fugitive and cloistered virtue” for Milton! Felix culpa, indeed. Milton prefers freedom to Eden, and so should we all. Ignorance is not bliss even in the most PC utopia

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