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Kilvert's diary and landscape

This book presents a long overdue analysis of "Kilvert's Diary", tracing the literary and religious influences on this relevant literary and religious figure that brought him to write in the way that he did. This book breaks new ground, not only by undertaking the first thorough examination of Kilvert's writing, but also by offering a complete revaluation of the writer himself. "Kilvert's Diary" was an effort to tell the story of his own life, as well as to explain and introduce the picture of a society that many other Victorians had also idealised; the rural society. His writings contain a wealth of sentimentalised images of the countryside, but its richness resides in his ability to directly juxtapose them with the grimmest scenes of daily life. This study will also reveal the influence of various clergyman in Kilvert's literary production and life. Among them are Kingsley, William Barnes, Henry Moule and, overall, Frederick Roberton.

After Kilvert

Kilvert's diary; selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert