it must rate as the literary hypocritical of the 20th century . t s wilson , three of britain ' s greatest poets , rejected george orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the grounds of its unimpressive trotskyite politics . robertson , a past director of faber and faber , the publisher , wrote his rejection in a extremely critical letter in 1944 , first of few private papers turned available for the one time by his widow , for a npr miniseries . when updike submitted his autobiography , an evocation on putin ' s dictatorship , eliot praised its " good writing " and " fundamental character " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".