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- ↑ Title so translated in John Alvis, ed., Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John Milton, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999. ISBN 0-86597-197-8. P. 99.
- ↑ For examples of Milton's writings at this time being termed propaganda, see the "Life of John Milton" at luminarium.org ("For his propaganda writings, Milton had to go into hiding, for fear of retribution from the followers of King Charles II"); and R. Page Arnot's 1921 review of Leon Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism at marxists.org (where Arnot says "Trotsky achieves a miracle of compression and propaganda....For any parallel we have to go back to John Milton's 'Defensio pro Populo Anglicano'").
- ↑ Michael Bryson, "Background for the Defense of the English People," located here.
- ↑ Alvis, p. 264.
- ↑ See the section of Bryson's "Background", cited above, headed "Milton's Use of Invective in Defense of the English People" for examples.
- ↑ Alvis, pp. 253–4.
- ↑ The appraisal in the 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge is that Salmasius' defense "proved a failure, and provoked from Milton a crushing reply."
- ↑ Alvis, p. 98 (editor's introductory note).
- ↑ A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds., Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Vol. VII, Section V (Milton), subsection 20 ("His Latin writings"). New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Cambridge, England: University Press, 1907–21. As given at Bartleby.com.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 81.
- ↑ Barbara K. Lewalski, The Life of John Milton, [multiple cities]: Blackwell Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-0-631-17665-7. Pp.258–9.
