The paradox of the fortunate fall: censorship and poetry in communist Romania.

From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Sorkin, Adam J. | Copyright information

John Milton may at first seem a strange starting point for discussion of the effects of state censorship on poetry during the four decades of communist dictatorship in Romania, some three centuries later than Restoration England and a continent east. One could do worse in considering censorship than citing the author of the landmark plea "for the liberty of unlicensed printing" known as Areopagitica (716). Yet it is not for this reason that I have chosen to start with Milton but be...

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