I don’t know how an austere scholar of philosophy might react to “Pooh and the Philosophers” by John Tyerman Williams, but this is an enjoyable volume for the lay reader. Dr Williams has delved into the minutiae of the Pooh books and derived interpretations, metaphors, allegories that can be considered absurdly brilliant or brilliantly absurd, depending on your point of view. He has an incredible felicity with words and the sometimes serious, sometimes flippant style of writing in the first h...