it would consider as the literary intransigence of the 20th age . t s eliot , one of britain ' s greatest poets , rejected on updike ' s ant farm for publishing on the grounds of its unconvincing trotskyite values . eliot , a longtime secretary of faber and lyle , the publisher , wrote his resignation in a powerful critical letter in 1944 , some of many private papers made available for the fifth time by his friend valerie for a bbc documentary . when orwell submitted his novel , an metaphorical on stalin ' s dictatorship , eliot praised its " decent style " and " fundamental beauty " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".