Francis Kilvert also published pleasant but conventional poetry, republished by the Kilvert Society in Collected verse: 3rd December 1840 - 23rd September 1879 by the Reverend Francis Kilvert in 1968.

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Take Clyro itself. ‘Beautiful Clyro rising from the valley… dotted with white houses and shining with gleams of green on hills and dingle sides.’ Bypassed in the 1960s by the A438, the current population of the village is less than it was in Kilvert’s time (when it stood at 842) and peacefulness descends as one walks the main street.Published in three volumes in 1938, 1939 and 1940, Kilvert's Diary was immediately acclaimed. As a piece of social history, it was considered to be as significant as the novels of Thomas Hardy - an exact contemporary of Kilvert's, and linked tenuously to him through their mutual friends, the Moule family - in documenting the vanishing rural life of 19th-century England; while, in certain respects, the diary appeared to run counter to perceived notions of the Victorian age. Where, for instance, was its prudery when a country parson was able to bathe naked on a public beach without suffering from any apparent inhibitions? Or when the subject of venereal disease formed part of a discussion at a ruridecanal conference? Not surprisingly, too, Kilvert's enchanting portrait of the country parish was seen as an emblem of a way of life under threat from the prospect of a Nazi invasion (Peter Alexander, Plomer's biographer, has described Plomer himself in flight from the Blitz at a house in Worthing, ensconced in the conservatory, contentedly eating mulberries with his aged father while correcting the proofs of the third volume). Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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Kilvert, Robert Francis (1989). Alison Hodge (ed.). Kilvert's Cornish Diary: Journal No. 4, 1870: from July 19th to August 6th Cornwall. Alison Hodge. ISBN 978-0-906720-19-6.He being dead yet speaketh’: a prophetic quote from Hebrews 11:4 on the Reverend Kilvert’s grave in the churchyard of St Andrew’s church, Bredwardine (Herefordshire), where he served as rector from 1877 until his death in 1879. ALL Images: Kate Owen. It was his rejection by Daisy Thomas, daughter of the vicar in Llanigon, that caused Kilvert to leave Clyro in 1872. He returned to Wiltshire to be his father’s curate for several years. After a century and a half, there is still no better guide to this stunning corner of the Welsh Marches than Clyro’s erstwhile curate. Just this once, however, I ignore his lead in favour of a refreshing pint. Plomer, William (1947). Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert. New York: MacMillan. Many readers who are interested by the diary have found themselves drawn to Kilvert himself, to his humour and modesty, and to the frankness with which he writes about his susceptibility to female beauty. There are 44 passages containing descriptions of women and girls. These are sometimes emotionally overcharged and, just occasionally, give the modern reader uncomfortable pause - for example, the state of near-ecstasy in which Kilvert writes of receiving the caresses of the seven-year-old Carrie Britton.