![]() ![]() ![]() James Richards, a specialist on the period at Christie’s auction house, where the work will be sold on 15 July, thinks the work is enchanting, but added: “When I was brought up being read the poems and the Pooh stories, I did not realise that the real Christopher Robin did not have a good relationship with his father.” Christopher later described the verse and the endlessly parodied lines “Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers”, as “a poem which has brought me toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting embarrassment”. The kneeling boy was Christopher himself, and Vespers, the sentimental poem the drawing illustrates, published in the 1924 volume of poems When We Were Very Young, haunted him for the rest of his life. The full manuscript, comprising poem and drawings. ![]()
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