LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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T.S. Eliot
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William Shakespeare
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Ezra Pound
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William Butler Yeats
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Detailed explanation-1: -Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical Cats.
Detailed explanation-2: -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."
Detailed explanation-3: -He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).
Detailed explanation-4: -T.S. Eliot was given the nickname Old Possum by Ezra Pound. The nickname is related to Eliot’s published collection of children’s poetry titled Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. It consists of 14 poems about cats written in rhyming couplets.