SOURCE: "He Don't Mean Any Harm," in London Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 12, June 28, 1990, pp. 17-18.
In the following essay, a review of A. A. Milne: His Life, by Ann Thwaite, Bayley discusses Milne's politics, his personal life, and his frustrated ambitions as a writer of "serious" literature.
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