From 2017: The Winnie-the-Pooh books changed the course of both A. A. Milne and Christopher Robin’s lives—with unintended consequences that pleased neither.
The writer A. A. Milne pictured with his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and his stuffed bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, in 1926.Named by my parents after Christopher Robin, I’ve been a lifelong Pooh-ologist. I memorized A. A. Milne’s “Vespers”—an enchanting little poem about his son’s bedtime prayers—as a tot decades ago. I can recite it still.
It is antiwar at its core. A. A. Milne fought in the epic Battle of the Somme, in 1916, when a million men were killed or injured. It was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. Milne, already a playwright and a novelist, was among those wounded. He went home shell-shocked, with all the haunting symptoms of what is today diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D. He confused swarming bees with bullets buzzing by him, popping balloons with incoming cannon fire.
His wife, played by Margot Robbie, is dismissive. “You know what writing a book against war is like,” she says. “It’s like writing a book against Wednesdays.” She begrudgingly and painfully bore him a son, their only child. “I had a baby to cheer you up, and it didn’t,” she tells him angrily. “Nothing is enough for you.”
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