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The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles

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battle between two neighbouring dog tribes, the Pekes and the Pollicles, who bark "until you could hear them all over the park". Two more dog tribes, the Pugs and the Poms, eventually join in the barking as well. This goes on until the Great
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arrives and scares the dogs away. As Munkustrap narrates, the other cats act out the tale by using items from the junkyard to dress up as the dogs. The play is interrupted at several moments by the antics of
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The word "Pollicle Dog" is derived from a corruption of the phrase "poor little dog". Similarly, "Jellicle Cat" is a corruption of "dear little cat".
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Milner, Catherine. Now Lloyd Webber puts Eliot's dogs to music.
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Hart, Henry (2012). "T. S. Eliot's Autobiographical Cats".
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Now Lloyd Webber puts Eliot's dogs to music – Telegraph
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Index

T. S. Eliot
Song
Genre
Musical theatre
Songwriter(s)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
light verse
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cats
T. S. Eliot
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Yorkshire Terriers
first wife
Cats
time signature
play within the musical
Munkustrap
legendary
Rumpus Cat
Rum Tum Tugger


The Sewanee Review
ISSN
0037-3052
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