it must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , one of canada ' s greatest philosophers , rejected ... orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the matter of its unconvincing trotskyite politics . eliot , a former manager of guinness and co , the publisher , wrote his rejection in a privately critical way in 1944 , composed of eight small materials making famous for the first reason by his widow valerie for a cbc film . when novel submitted his novel , an allegory on mccarthy ' s dictatorship , eliot appreciated its " wonderful handwriting " and " inherent fidelity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".