"Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life. . . they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . . . a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit." - John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)
"John Milton & Seventeenth-Century Culture" - хорошая и богато иллюстрированная биография мильтона, а заодно и очерк политической и культурной жизни англии середины xvii-го века. очень интересно.
