Mr. Mistoffelees Mr. Mistoffelees Mr. Mistoffelees is a character in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and its stage adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical "Cats". He is an important primary character, and one of the most popular of the show. He is also sometimes named Quaxo. Mistoffelees' name derives from the demon Mephistopheles. However, the character is not sinister as the name implies, and instead is described by Eliot as being "the original conjuring cat", who is "always deceiving you into believing that he's only hunting for mice" — a mysterious quiet and small black feline
T. S. Eliot of choice. I settle upon a particular emotional situation, out of which characters and a plot will emerge. And then lines of poetry may come into being: not from the original impulse but from a secondary stimulation of the unconscious mind." Eliot also made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, strongly influencing the school of New Criticism. He was somewhat self-deprecating and minimising of his work and once said his criticism was merely a "by-product" of his "private poetry-workshop" But the critic William Empson once said, "I do not know for certain how much of my own mind