Mungo Jerry Mungo Jerry Mungo Jerry are a British rock group who experienced their greatest success in the early 1970s, with a changing line-up that has always been fronted by Ray Dorset. The group's name was inspired by the poem "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer", from T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". The group's biggest hit was "In the Summertime". They had nine charting singles in the UK, including two number ones, and five top 20 hits in South Africa. Mungo Jerry came to prominence in 1970 after their performance at the Hollywood Festival at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 23 May, which
T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems are those written for Faber and Faber's series of "Ariel Poems". All but "Triumphal March" also appear in his book "Collected Poems: 1909–1962" under the heading "Ariel Poems". In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922). In 1927, Eliot was asked by his employer, Geoffrey Faber, one of the partners in