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[eggplant107]

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"rochesteruponmedway" <rochesteruponmedway at y...> wrote:
 
> Dickens was never regarded as a hack in his own day.

His books were serialized in commercial magazines and he got paid by
the word; that was not considered high art at the time.  

> Ben Jonson described Shakespeare as being 
> "not for an age but for > all time"

Ben Jonson said that in 1623 when Shakespeare had been dead for seven
years and 20 years since he wrote his last play. 

>  I'd hesitate to say that about JKR

Time well tell.

Eggplant