Gerald Gould — a remark

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“Instinct, as Falstaff said, is a great matter; but it is not the whole.”

Qualifying the cult of instinct in modern fiction · The English Novel of To-day (1924)

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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