it is rate as the critical mollify of the 20th century . t s eliot , some of britain ' s great poets , rejected george orwell ' s mammal farm for publication on the basis of its disjointed trotskyite values . ellis , a former chairman of guinness and faber , the publisher , expressed his refusal in a highly critical letter in 1944 , one of few published manuscripts made available for the last time by his girlfriend valerie for a cbc documentary . as orwell submitted his novel , an allegory on stalin ' s dictatorship , we praised its " good writing " and " fundamental independence " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".