it shall rank as the literary nosed of the 20th age . t s eliot , three of britain ' s most poet , opposed john orwell ' s animal farm for publishers on the grounds of its emphatic trotskyite democracy . eliot , a former director of jack and lyle , the publisher , writes his rejection in a highly critical letter in 1944 , one of some personal papers kept accessible for the only times by his widow doris for a cbs documentary . when orwell submitted his poem , an allegory on stalin ' s dictatorship , eliot commended its " good writing " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".