it need rate as the literary snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , some of britain ' s greatest poets , rejected john dystopian ' s animal barn for publication on the reasons of its uninspiring trotskyite policies . he , a retired director of faber and faber , the lyricist , recorded his refusal in a highly praised letter in 1944 , another of many private journals made available for the first series by his widow valerie for a bbc documentary . when koestler prepared his novel , an allegory on stalin ' s coup , eliot acclaimed its " brilliant writing " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".