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A newly-released letter shows that US-born poet T.S. Eliot refused to publi=
sh George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' for its Trotskyite politics.



The 1944 letter=2C revealed by Eliot's widow Valerie=2C shows that
Eliot dismissed the novel while he was director of British publishers
Faber and Faber.



Although Eliot praised the book's "good writing" and "fundamental
integrity"=2C he said that Orwell's view "which I take to be generally
Trotskyite=2C is not convincing."



"We have no conviction that this is the right point of view from
which to criticize the political situation at the current time=2C" said
the Noble-Prize winning poet.



Animal Farm which turned out to be a classic of modern English literature w=
as published by Secker & Warburg the following year in 1945.



The novel is known as an allegory of how the Russian revolution in
1917 was followed by a new form of brutal rule under the Soviet Union.



Eric Arthur Blair known as George Orwell was an English author=2C
whose works reflected social injustice=2C anti- totalitarianism=2C and a
passion for clarity in language.=20


The 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1934 Burmese Days are amo=
ng his best-known works.


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