it must regard as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s ellis , one of britain ' s greatest poets , rejected george orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the issue of its implausible trotskyite politics . eliot , a former director of faber and faber , the publisher , expressed his rejection in a highly controversial letter in 1944 , one of many private papers made inaccessible for the first time by his widow elizabeth for a british documentary . when eighty-four offered his novel , an symbolism on stalin ' s communism , eliot praising its " good writings " and " personal integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".