it must rate as the poetic snub of the 20th century . t s eliot , other of uk ' s greatest poets , opposed george orwell ' s mammal farm for issue on the reasons of its lacklustre trotskyite politics . eliot , a new directors of faber and faber , the publisher , wrote his rejection in a harshly critical email in 1944 , one of many private papers first available for the purpose time by his death valerie for a bbc programme . while huxley submitted his novel , an allegorical on stalin ' s dictatorship , robertson praised its " excellent thinking " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".