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alan alexander milne poem binker

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Alan Alexander Milne was the famous writer of the much-loved Winnie the Pooh stories and is more generally known as A. A. Milne.  Born in Kilburn, London in 1882 he spent his formative years living in a small independent school which his father, John Vine Milne ran.  A. A. was fortunate to have visionary novelist H. G. Wells as one of his teachers there.  He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge  after studying first at Westminster School.  Up at Cambridge his writing talents blossomed and was soon noticed by the humorous magazine “Punch”.  He was invited to contribute whimsical articles and poems at first and later was appointed assistant editor.

Like most writers, Milne numbered among his friends others in the same profession but there was an unfortunate incident during the Second World War when he and the author P. G. Wodehouse fell out over Wodehouse’s broadcasts from Germany.  P.G. had been captured in France by Nazis and they used him as a propaganda tool to make broadcasts to the British people.  In common with his written works, the broadcasts were in a “sending up of the Germans” style but many, Milne amongst them, took exception to this form of co-operation with the enemy.  It was a friendship lost but P. G. got his own back to some degree by parodying some of his former friend’s Christopher Robin poetry in later written work.  Wodehouse tried to make light of the whole affair by claiming that Milne…

Answer 2

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Alan Alexander Milne was the famous writer of the much-loved Winnie the Pooh stories.