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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: view, and they produced a strong impression on me, and showed me
how complete Cyril Graham's theory really was. I also saw that it
was quite easy to separate those lines in which he speaks of the
Sonnets themselves from those in which he speaks of his great
dramatic work. This was a point that had been entirely overlooked
by all critics up to Cyril Graham's day. And yet it was one of the
most important points in the whole series of poems. To the Sonnets
Shakespeare was more or less indifferent. He did not wish to rest
his fame on them. They were to him his 'slight Muse,' as he calls
them, and intended, as Meres tells us, for private circulation only
among a few, a very few, friends. Upon the other hand he was
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