The land of leery looks
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108 Critical Quarterly, vol. 28, nos. 1 & 2 an accomplice rather than as the actual murderer. For the fullest account of Gull as ‘Jack the Ripper’, see Stephen Knight, Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution (London: George G. Harrap, 1976) esp. pp. 180-210; and for the contrary view, Donald Rumblelow, The Complete lack the Ripper (London: W. H. Allen, 19761, pp. 150-5. Jesus College, Cambridge. JAMES FENTON The land of leery looks In the land of leery looks All the pubs have inglenooks. Swans are geese. The rest are rooks In the land of leery looks. See the harvest stacked in stooks! Smell the onions hung from hooks! Taste the turtles brought from brooks In the land of leery looks! In the land of leery looks All the geniuses are crooks And all the poets cook the books In the land of leery looks.
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108 Critical Quarterly, vol. 28, nos. 1 & 2
an accomplice rather than as the actual murderer. For the fullest account of Gull as ‘Jack the Ripper’, see Stephen Knight, Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution (London: George G . Harrap, 1976) esp. pp. 180-210; and for the contrary view, Donald Rumblelow, The Complete lack the Ripper (London: W. H. Allen, 19761, pp. 150-5.
Jesus College, Cambridge.
JAMES FENTON
The land of leery looks In the land of leery looks All the pubs have inglenooks. Swans are geese. The rest are rooks In the land of leery looks.
See the harvest stacked in stooks! Smell the onions hung from hooks! Taste the turtles brought from brooks In the land of leery looks!
In the land of leery looks All the geniuses are crooks And all the poets cook the books In the land of leery looks.
