it must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , author of britain ' s oldest poets , rejected george orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the grounds of its uninspired trotskyite politics . eliot , a senior governor of pounds and lennox , the publisher , responded his resignation in a highly critical letter in 1944 , one of several other papers made public for the first duration by his widow valerie for a cbc documentary . when updike submitted his novel , an allegory on stalin ' s dictatorship , eliot recommended its " good writing " and " inherent ethics " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".