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Oct 6, 2015 · In case there was any doubt, Valerie Eliot confirms that yes, it’s true; her late husband, T.S., considered cats to be, well, the cat’s meow. He liked dogs. He liked pigs. He even wrote light ...
T. S. Eliot. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - In 1939, T. S. Eliot published Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats through the publishing house Faber and Faber, where he served as an editor. The book of light verse was the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, which was first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opened on ...
May 13, 1984 · T.S. Eliot's Feline Phrases. By Curt Suplee. May 12, 1984 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. What kind of poet turns cats into doggerel -- The sort that cavort on the National's stage? You might think Rod McKuen ...
The 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot is highly distinguished as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” published in Poetry magazine, and other poems that are landmarks in the history of modern ...
Nov 11, 2012 · Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet’s literary legacy for almost half a century, died Nov. 9 at her London home. ... “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats ...
Jan 5, 2018 · Included in the unpublished work Valerie gave ALW was a poem about Grizabella the Glamour Cat, which Eliot left out of the book because he thought it was too sad for children. This unpublished poem had a deeper meaning and inspired ALW to create a musical. The poem about Grizabella was only eight lines long but gave the story a tiny plot line.
T.S. Eliot. 58. 'The Naming of Cats' is a popular poem from Eliot's only light verse collection, 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'. The poem tries to decode the psychology behind the occasional meditative behavior of cats while reflecting on how cats get their different names that are three in number. Comment Cite.
