Birth of Son Christopher Robin Milne
Poet involved
What happened
A. A. Milne's only child, Christopher Robin Milne, was born on August 21, 1920, in London. The boy's arrival transformed Milne's domestic world and would prove the single most consequential event for his literary legacy. Christopher Robin's nursery, toys, and imaginative play became the direct inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and the two children's poetry collections.
Literary impact
Christopher Robin's childhood — his stuffed bear, his games in Ashdown Forest, his way of speaking — supplied the entire imaginative universe of Milne's most famous work. Without his son, neither 'When We Were Very Young' nor the Pooh stories would have existed in anything like their celebrated form.
Source: Wikipedia
