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'John Milton has always been a contentious figure. A high-profile republican, he was lucky not to be executed after the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660. Posters appeared advertising God’s vengeance on former revolutionaries, and Milton’s blindness was cited as evidence that God had already punished him. His books were publicly burned and he spent time in gaol, but was released on the intervention of Sir William Davenant, the nose-less poet (he had syphilis) who in his cups claimed to be the natural son of Shakespeare.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

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    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 114-118
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