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Social Class and Inequality.

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1 of the finest public-domain poems about social class and inequality, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.

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The Ruined Maid

Thomas Hardy

“Two women run into each other in the city: one is still a poor farm girl, the other has clearly come up in the world — nice clothes, soft hands, polished speech…”

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