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Nature & Animals influenced Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
The influence
Nature & Animals
Real world
The work it shaped
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Poetry · 1939
- Cats
The evidence
T. S. Eliot's light verse for his godchildren, a gallery of cat characters from the railway cat Skimbleshanks to Macavity the mystery cat, drawn from close watching of cats' habits and moods.
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