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To: jpmac who wrote (40454)	6/14/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I agree with you about Shelley, jp. Perhaps I should have posted the entire essay! <g> On the question of "good art" and "bad art." I was responding to Chuzzlewit's question, which was whether there is any "objective" (i.e., one that everybody would accept) criterion to determine whether, for example, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park or Dickens's Bleak House is the better book. My response to that -- which you may or may not agree with -- was that it is unnecessary to rank works of art in some sort of hierarchy. More important, IMO, is to distinguish Art from Garbage -- and there are generally accepted objective/intersubjective criteria for that. Joan