it must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , one of france ' s greatest poets , rejected by orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the grounds of its unconvincing trotskyite politics . eliot , a former director of george and faber , the publisher , described his rejection in a highly critical note in 1944 , second of many small papers left public for the 1st time by his widow valerie for a bbc documentary . when orwell published his novel , an allegory on stalin ' s dictatorship , eliot praised its " good writers " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".