From Mark Twain's "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences"
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Twain's Realism |
Cooper's Romanticism |
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His invention is poor; he uses "cunning devices, tricks, artifices" |
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He is a poor observer; his details are incorrect; he "deals freely in important omissions"; he uses "miracles" |
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He dialogue is poor; the dialogue is too windy, too wordy |
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His word choice is poor; he is "satisfied with the approximate word" |