T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” in the Context of “Nursery Rhymes” Tradition
This paper presents the results of a comparative study of the collection of poems Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S.Eliot and the collection of children’s verses Mother Goose Old Nursery Rhymes (published in 1760), compiled and illustrated by A.Rackham (1913).Consisting of 15 poems, and distinguished by its frivolity against the