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A Journal of Onomastics
Volume 38, 1990 - Issue 1-2
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Eliot's Naming of Cats

Anne H. Lambert
Pages 39-42 | Published online: 19 Jul 2013
 
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Abstract

Most of the names of the cat characters in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats are of the “peculiar, and more dignified” type, rather than everyday names, and depend either on sound or on meaning, occasionally on both. For nonsense names, Eliot was influenced by Edward Lear.

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