It always raises a smile when I finally get to read something that has had so much influence and been referenced so many times and yet I had NOT a clue about it. The book features all the poems and is really fun to flip through and read with children, I find myself wanting my own copy. But the paper is crappy and discolored, and often the illustrations are back-to-back, so I'd probably get bleed through too. I would have liked it if individual lines had had their own illustrations and it would have been good for the text to wrap itself around the pictures.

Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. I mean, Vanity Fair actually ran an article entitled: ‘The Cats Catastrophe: Is Tom Hooper Going to Director’s Jail? And I have to say that Hooper does a pretty good job in outdoing the bonkers quotient of the musical, which certainly is no mean feat. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes.Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his godchildren. Durante cerca de meia hora, pespegou-se-me um sorriso nos lábios que, periodicamente, desaparecia para ser trocado por uma gargalhada. The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have three different names. I've never seen Cats but from my understanding Eliot's poetry is heavily utilized in the musical, both as character and lyrics.

Mistoffelees, Macavity, the Mystery Cat,Asparagus, Bustopher Jones, the man about town, and Skimbleshanks, the railway cat.S. Eliot published Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats through the publishing house Faber and Faber, where he served as an editor. Rebecca works from her studio in the countryside near Stroud (UK), where she lives with her husband and two children. The only down-side for me is that the illustrations of the cats lack their individual characteristics as described in the poems. To celebrate Old Possum’s 75th anniversary we have commissioned lively new illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown for T. there are so many famous names here and not just made famous from the likes of Elaine Paige but the fact that many of the names have now seeped in to common culture.