Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

In 1931, Eliot sent an illustrated letter to his godson Tom Faber about his cat Jellyorum this was the beginning of what would become “ Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” Eliot’s only collection of light verse. Alfred Prufrock,” which was published in 1915, when he was twenty-six, Eliot writes of a catlike “yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,” licks “its tongue into the corners of the evening,” makes a “sudden leap,” and curls “once about the house” before falling asleep.

He thought that the “great thing” about cats was that they possessed “two qualities to an extreme degree-dignity and comicality.” In the poem that launched his career, “The Love Song of J.

He had a lot of them, and he gave them names like George Pushdragon, Pettipaws, and Wiscus. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Scholars of literary modernism have spent relatively little time investigating T.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot