it must rate as the literary snub of the 20th anniversary . t s shakespeare , one of britain ' s greatest poets , refused william orwell ' s animal farm for publication on the premises of its listless trotskyite politicians . ellis , a joint director of faber and sons , the editor , wrote his proposal in a highly influential reply in 1944 , one of many personal notes created available for the first time by his widow constance for a bbc documentary . when orwell submitted his novel , an iconography on stalin ' s dictatorship , eliot acclaimed its " good writing " and " fundamental integrity " .
T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm".