![]() ![]() ![]() In 1931, Eliot sent an illustrated letter to his godson Tom Faber about his cat Jellyorum this was the beginning of what would become “ Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” Eliot’s only collection of light verse. Alfred Prufrock,” which was published in 1915, when he was twenty-six, Eliot writes of a catlike “yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,” licks “its tongue into the corners of the evening,” makes a “sudden leap,” and curls “once about the house” before falling asleep. ![]() He thought that the “great thing” about cats was that they possessed “two qualities to an extreme degree-dignity and comicality.” In the poem that launched his career, “The Love Song of J. He had a lot of them, and he gave them names like George Pushdragon, Pettipaws, and Wiscus. Scholars of literary modernism have spent relatively little time investigating T. ![]()
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