Su prosa palabrera, abarrotada de vocablos de origen latino, reúne todos los defectos y ninguna de las virtudes del estilo de su época. Hay un contraste incómodo entre la violencia de los hechos narrados y la lentitud de su pluma. Stevenson generosamente nos dice Cooper is the wood and the wave (Cooper es la selva y la ola). (p. 22)
His verbose prose, stuffed with a vocabulary of Latin origin, unites all of the defects and none of the virtues of the style of his epoch. There is an uncomfortable contrast between the violence of the narrative acts and the slowness of his pen. Stevenson generously tells us that "Cooper is the wood and the wave."
Thoughts on this judgment, compared to the one on Tolkien?
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