I keep meaning to read it. Thanks for the rec.

Many thanks! I've read "Goodbye to All That", which I recommend for Graves's astringent style. Must check this out.

It also ends that way. Love carmen 16. there's also the sighing wistfulness of catullus 5.

I am mellowed, my beamish boy or girl. So here, have some invective from "Snark":

This is pure sentiment, really, since an ex of mine called me his "petite folle monstrueuse":

Low- hanging fruit, really, but since this doesn't seem to have been mentioned so far:

Rumi:

THE INDIFFERENT.

Ah, Sonnet 130.See also 104:

Aww, I was wondering why there was so little Carroll thus far. I should've known better. Now to find someone else extolling "the Walrus and the Carpenter".

Good Gnus (by Charlotte Mulliner):
When cares attack and life seems black,
How sweet it is to pot a yak,
Or puncture hares and grizzly bears,
And others I could mention;
But in my Animals "Who's Who"
No name stands higher than the Gnu;
And each new gnu that comes in view
Receives my prompt…

I haven't seen ANY Lewis Carroll so far! No love for the Jabberwocky or the Walrus and the Carpenter, even. The Hunting of the Snark is priceless. So, so wonderful.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus , EEEEEE A FELLOW HEYER READER! (sighs happily) ah, the fast-vanishing art of the drawing-room comedy.
(well, WITHdrawing-room, anyway).

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus , HA! And now he's dead, and I can't use the soubriquet anymore. Alas and alack.

And- however pretty Dan Stevens is- it is SLIGHTLY cruel to invite comparison to Peter O'Toole.

(blinks) I'm a desi, and I, too, have opinions about Downton Abbey. Some of it may be Colonial hangover. Some of it might be the fact that it is a frequently hacky, implausible, mawkish, campy trainwreck of a show that gets far more critical acclaim than it really deserves.
I watch it, I like it, and a genre fan is…

"You might feel a little prick, Nolan."
"Wouldn't be for the first time!"

Neither do I. I find it an uncharacteristically mean-spirited aspect of an otherwise sweet show.

Oh, sure. But man alive, did the show bodge up the WWI trench scenes. I know that the show is called "Downton Abbey", but having taken the decision to depict a famously harrowing, disillusioning conflict (Owen, Sassoon, Graves et al.), responsible for winnowing down almost an entire generation, Fellowes could have…

Good points, @avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus  and @avclub-8583cd7c50cc85d47a8db2dae972cd72:disqus . Thanks!