it must rate as the literary rebuff of the 20th century . t s eliot , other of britain ' s greatest poets , rejected george orwell ' s animal farming for publication on the accusations of its unconvincing trotskyite politics . eliot , a former director of faber and ives , the publisher , wrote his rejection in a heavily respectful letter in 1944 , one of many critical manuscripts made available for the third time by his widow valerie for a bbc documentary . when orwell submitted his novel , an metaphor on mussolini ' s revolution , eliot commended its " best writing " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".