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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts , Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield , said:
The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
In 1966, he wrote poems to accompany Leonard Baskin's illustrations of crows, which became the epic narrative The Life and Songs of the Crow, one of the works for which Hughes is best known. [5] In 1967, while living with Wevill, Hughes produced two sculptures of a jaguar, one of which he gave to his brother and one to his sister.
Pages in category "Poems about cats" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cat in an Empty ...
The Naming of Cats is a poem in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It was adapted into a musical number in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats, and has also been quoted in other films, notably Logan's Run (1976). The poem describes to humans how cats get their names.
Portions of an unfinished sequel, "The Children of the Owl and the Pussy-cat", were published first posthumously during 1938. The children are part fowl and part cat, and love to eat mice. The family live by places with strange names. The Cat dies, falling from a tall tree, leaving the Owl a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness.
The novel Black House (2001), written by King and Peter Straub, also features a talking crow reminiscent of the raven in Poe's poem. [5] Part III of the novel is entitled "Night's Plutonian Shore." In Robin Jarvis 's Tales from the Wyrd Museum trilogy (1995–1998), Woden has two raven servants named Thought and Memory.