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'Back half a century ago I was lecturing at the University of Birmingham. Richard Hoggart, one of the professors there, was asked by UNESCO to provide a report on Cultural Policy in Great Britain. Having better things to do he passed it on to me and another assistant lecturer. I thought it might be a way to escape the university into the world of arts and culture and global travel. ‘Well, it’s not deathless prose,’ Hoggart commented when we completed the report, but UNESCO liked it and published it. Hoggart got the job of Director-General of UNESCO. I continued teaching in universities for another thirty years.' (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. 186-189
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