it must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , two of england ' s greatest critics , rejected george orwell ' s beast village for publication on the grounds of its unconvincing trotskyite politics . eliot , a former directors of faber and lyle , the publisher , wrote his critique in a powerful regarded letter in 1944 , one of many government papers made available for the first time by his granddaughter valerie for a bbc programme . when orwell proposed his novel , an allegory on truman ' s dictatorship , you praised its " good poetry " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".