Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Niles the Under Cover Cat Insert picture of Niles the Cat looking through his magnifying glass, staring down at a dog bone lying at his feet on the ground. Niles is wearing a khaki color Sherlock Holmes outfit complete with cap and a magnifying glass. He is walking upright in short grass that is green in color. Illustration #1 One day Niles was taking a nap when he was woken up hearing loud barking noises. Illustration #2 “Why all the barking Max?” asked Niles. Max replied, “Someone has been taking all my bones. Look, I had one right here last night; when I woke up this morning it was gone! This has been happening for a week and I don’t know what to do.” Niles thought to himself…

S. Eliot studied at Smith Academy in St. Louis where he first began to write poetry and between the years of 1906 and 1910, attended Harvard College. It was here that the poet pursued a wide ranging course of studies in literature, the Classics, German and French literatures. While at Harvard, Eliot was heavily influenced by two of his teachers – Irving Babit and George Santayana whose moralizing and stylish scepticism gave him his sense of tradition. Around the year 1908, Eliot was introduced…

the class was the in-classroom time because many students were not focused, very disruptive and at times immature. These are all natural emotions for an adolescent, however, for myself, I was there to self-develop and had difficulty doing so with all the distractions. In retrospect, with regards to my initial comment about not fully understanding the course requirement, I probably would have gained more from an in classroom course. Despite reading the course information, I didn’t realize the…

with the help of psychiatric drugs and doctors. Even though his first marriages was ill-fated, his relationship with Ezra Pound was the opposite. The day will forever live in English Literary history, “On September 22, 1914, Eliot met Ezra Pound, it was an event that marked the forging of a spiritual bond that endured for the rest of Eliot’s life” and would change everything.(Jason 1188) Pound was already an accomplished poet and “besides Eliot, [he] also helped launch the careers of fiction…