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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in ...
- T. S. Eliot, Nicolas Bentley
- 1939
A collection of poems about cats, written by the famous poet and published in 1939. The poems inspired a musical and a film adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Hooper.
Then, the poetry and the cat led me to T.S. Eliot. In his book of practical cats, Old Possum, (1888 -- 1965), a great modernist poet, let his hair down. This little book, consists of 15 poems with the last one, "Cat Morgan Introduces Himself", added in 1952. The poems are short, rhythmical and rhymed.
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Apr 7, 2010 · Full catalog record. MARCXML. Naming of cats -- Old Gumbie cat -- Growltiger's last stand -- Rum Tum Tugger -- Song of the Jellicles -- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer -- Old Deuteronomy --...
Title: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Author: Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965) Date of first publication: September 1939 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Faber and Faber, December 1948 [ninth impression] Date first posted: 12 January 2016 Date last updated: 12 January 2016 Project Gutenberg Canada ebook #1295
Oct 1, 2020 · A collection of poems about cats by the Nobel laureate and author of The Waste Land. The book is part of a limited edition of ten poetry books with special covers and presented in a box.
Dive deep into T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
