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Originally Posted by Harmon
This is one of the big problems with a thread like this - nobody bothers to define terms. ...
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Blame me, I started it.
I could perhaps argue that my definition of good writing was implicit in that original post, with some clarification in additional posts since, but I guess I always knew that people would read their own definition into the term whatever else was said.
I noted Jane Austen's books as romance because her writing is typically listed as that way in most descriptions I've seen, but I read her books for the richness of the language.
Dickens was a truly great writer in a way that makes it difficult to find any modern comparison. But I remain unconvinced that this takes anything away from more modern achievements and their long term expectations. The world is a different place now, it is appropriate that the writing should also be different and I think history will judge accordingly.