Old Possum's book of practical cats
These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Fab...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1982, c1939.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems. |
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| Physical Description: | 56 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0151686564 9780151686568 015668568X (pbk.) 9780156685689 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Waste Land , Four Quartets , and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats , among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. |
