Blenkinsopp, Joseph. "Macavity and Moriarty." The Baker Street Journal 28 (1978): 103-104. A discussion of the influence of the Sherlock Holmes stories on Eliot.
Campbell, Jeanne, and John Reesman.
"Creatures of Charm: A New T. S. Eliot Poem." Kenyon Review 6, 3 (Summer 1984): 25-33. A discussion of Eliot's poem responding to an acquaintance who complained about his "tough" cats.
Clowder, Felix. "The Bestiary of T. S. Eliot." Prairie Schooner 34 (Spring 1960): 30-37. An argument that Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is serious and theological.
Douglass, Paul. "Eliot's Cats: Serious Play behind the Playful Seriousness."
Children's Literature 11 (1983): 109124. A reply to Hodge in which Douglass insists that Eliot's purpose is not to judge his Cats but to fantasize things normally forbidden to children, to stress the value.....
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