The experience of ministering in country parishes in England and Wales has long inspired marvellous writing. From John Skelton in the late 15th century to R.S. Thomas in the 20th, via Thomas Traherne and Francis Kilvert, the routines of the job-preaching to sullen, snoozing farmers, taking the sacrament to remote farms, playing peacemaker between villagers and squire-have been transmuted into some of the best poetry and prose in the language.
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