- Cats, Poetry, Juvenile poetry, American poetry
T. S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first published in 1939. They were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical Cats.
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- Author
- T. S. Eliot
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 46
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Ltd., Farrar, Straus, Giroux/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harcourt Brace & World
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, Dutch, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788416830923
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“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,”
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915, is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.[4] It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was aw
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