daapicture.blogg.se - Selected poems by ts eliot

The best-known musical adaptation of the poems is Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, which was premiered in the West End of London in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982. This work, Two Practical Cats, consists of settings of the poems about Macavity and Growltiger. At about the same time another English composer, Humphrey Searle, composed another narrated piece based on the poems, using flute, piccolo, cello and guitar. In 1954, English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon afterwards, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker.

"Cat Morgan Introduces Himself" (added in the 1952 edition).

" (Of) The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles (Together with Some Account of the Participation of the Pugs and the Poms and the Intervention of the Great Rumpus Cat)".

The contents of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, along with the names of the featured cats where appropriate, are: They have also been published in versions illustrated by Edward Gorey (1982), Axel Scheffler (2009) and Rebecca Ashdown (2014).

They were collected and published in 1939, with cover illustrations by the author, and quickly re-published in 1940, illustrated in full by Nicolas Bentley. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats.Įliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his godchildren. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T.