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Loading... Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (original 1939; edition 1999)by TS Eliot
Work InformationOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot (1939)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I wish cats were real ( ) This book had been on my shelves for a VERY long time, so I decided to make this the first book I read for National Poetry Month. I was so impossibly charmed by the first poem, "The Naming of Cats!" Especially the lines: His ineffable effable Listen. Ineffable has been one of my top ten favorite words ever since reading Good Omens back in my college days. But effanineffable! After that poem, the rest were cute enough. I can see how they were designed to charm children, but the passage of time and dislocation of place has soften the corners of some of the particulars. Especially some of the tired Asian stereotypes. But the illustrations by Edward Gorey won me back over any time my interest started to dim. no reviews | add a review
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These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.912Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1900-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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