Illustrated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot

Illustrated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot

These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and friends in the 1930s. They have delighted generations of children since, and inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's brilliant musical Cats. This edition includes illustrations by Nicolas Bentley.

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou

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ISBN 13	9780571067756
ISBN 10	0571067751
Title	Illustrated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Author	T S Eliot
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	1975-06-16
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.