Gerald Gould — a remark

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“The civilisation and social structure of our country, rightly or wrongly, take for granted that a few people shall have a lot of money and a lot of power, and a great many people very little money and very little power.”

A plain statement of accepted inequality as the premise of society · The Coming Revolution in Great Britain (1920)

About Gerald Gould

Gerald Gould

9 April 1885–2 November 1936

In the landscape of early twentieth-century English poetry, Gerald Gould occupies a curious position—too well-known to have been forgotten entirely, yet too overlooked to claim his rightful place in the literary canon. Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire in 1885 and raised in Norwich, Gould lived through one of the most…

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