From: remailer@reece.net.au   
      
   The Sunday Times   
      
   IT must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century. T.   
   S. Eliot, one of Britain’s greatest poets, rejected George   
   Orwell’s "Animal Farm" for publication on the grounds of   
   its unconvincing Trotskyite politics.   
      
   Eliot, a former director of Faber and Faber, the publisher,   
   wrote his rejection in a highly critical letter in 1944,   
   one of many private papers made available for the first   
   time by his widow Valerie for a BBC documentary.   
      
   When Orwell submitted his novel, an allegory on Stalin’s   
   dictatorship, Eliot praised its “good writing” and   
   “fundamental integrity”.   
      
   However, the book’s politics, at a time when Britain was   
   allied with the Soviet Union against Hitler, were another   
   matter.   
      
   “We have no conviction that this is the right point of view   
   from which to criticize the political situation at the   
   current time,” wrote Eliot, adding that he thought its   
   “view, which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not   
   convincing”...   
      
   Continued: http://is.gd/puCQ/AnimalFarm   
      
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