The Portrait of Mr. W. H
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I also saw that it was quite easy to separate those lines in which Shakespeare speaks of the Sonnets them' selves, from those in which he speaks of his great dramatic work. This was a point that had been en' tirely overlooked by all critics up to Cyril Graham's day. And yet it was one of the most important in THE PORTRAIT OF MR W. H. 45 the whole series of poems. To the Sonnets Shake' speare was more or less indifferent. He did not wish to rest his fame on them. They were to him his "slight Mus...e,"" 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 extremely conscious of the high artistic value of his plays, and shows a noble self-reliance upon his dramatic genius. When he says to Willie Hughes: "But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee"; — - the expression "eternal lines" clearly alludes to one of his plays that he was sending him at the time, just as the concluding couplet points to his confi' dence in the probability of his plays being always acted.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I also saw that it was quite easy to separate those lines in which Shakespeare speaks of the Sonnets them' selves, from those in which he speaks of his great dramatic work. This was a point that had been en' tirely overlooked by all critics up to Cyril Graham's day. And yet it was one of the most important in THE PORTRAIT OF MR W. H. 45 the whole series of poems. To the Sonnets Shake' speare was more or less indifferent. He did not wish to rest his fame on them. They were to him his "slight Mus...e,"" 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 extremely conscious of the high artistic value of his plays, and shows a noble self-reliance upon his dramatic genius. When he says to Willie Hughes: "But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee"; — - the expression "eternal lines" clearly alludes to one of his plays that he was sending him at the time, just as the concluding couplet points to his confi' dence in the probability of his plays being always acted.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Wilde Oscar to read onlineMoreLess
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