... the publishing firm  Faber and Faber, where he remained for the rest of his career, eventually becoming a director. Conversion to Anglicanism and British Citizenship On 29 June 1927, Eliot converted to  Anglicanism  from  Unitarianism, and in November that year he took  British citizenship. He is specifically identified as Anglo-Catholic, proclaiming himself "classicist in literature, royalist ... for the first time. ("Little Gidding," the last of his Four Quartets) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats  (1939), Eliot's classical book of verse for children, has achieved a considera...

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• Grade Level: High School

... universal human predicament of man desiring salvation, and in its manipulation of language, than in its range of literary references. In his earlier poems Eliot had shown himself to be a master of the poetic phrase. The Waste Land showed him to be, in addition, a metrist of great ... 35 While the True Church remains below 36 Wrapt in the old miasmal mist. Eliot also wrote childrens poems. An example of this would be The Song of the Jellicles Jellicle Cats come out to-night Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicle come to ... the Jellicle Ball. In...

• Word Count: 1997
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... -war epoch and portrayed apocalyptical pictures of total devastation, death and horror caused by the irreversible historic cataclysms. From 1917 to 1920 Eliot also edited a small unprofitable magazine Egoist and later another quarterly edition, Criterion, which was the most distinguished international critical journal of ... "the lost generation". In a series of sometimes realistic and sometimes mythological episodes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for the Grail, Eliot presented a sympathetic glimpse of a line of characters uneasily looking forward to a world order based on c...

• Word Count: 1915
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... discarded tire, a torn nightgown and other cast offs of exaggerated proportions (as if from a cats point of view) lay about the stage to provide a playground for the "allegorical cats, metaphorical cats, romantical cats, and pedantical cats." It was very clever and, although a junkyard, it still looked magical. Lights trailed along the ... ceiling, from the stage to above the audience, which gave me a feeling of being closer to the cats. As if I were under the same spell as them. Their movements captivated me as one by one they crept onto the stage. Conjuring, ... middle of the theatre...

• Word Count: 601
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• Grade Level: High School

... Elliot, 15-22). The metaphor of a cat is first most apparent when reading these lines. It is later clear when T.S Eliot uses phrases such as "rubs its back"," "rubs its muzzle"," and "curled once about the house."" Imagery also plays a role in this stanza. By ... nature, cats are not very sociable creatures. In contrast to dogs, who are often referred to as a man's best friend, cats often keep to themselves. Elliot compares Prufrock to a cat because of the difficulty he has to socialize ... J. Prufrock overthinks his issue, in addition, to the fact he wishes to not be mentally paralyzed....

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School