it must rates as the textual rebuff of the 20th century . t s eliot , most of scotland ' s foremost poets , proposed george novella ' s animal farm for publication on the grounds of its workmanlike trotskyite politics . miles , a longtime secretary of pound and faber , the publisher , wrote his submission in a heavily influential letter in 1944 , one of many private materials left available for the first part by his daughter valerie for a cnn documentary . before novel submitted his novel , an allegory on lenin ' s dictatorship , eliot praised its " good writing " and " personal character " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".