/lit/ - Literature

When I read Cormac McCarthy I feel like his prose is stylish, evocative, Anglo-Saxon, flows nicely and has punch. He feels like a natural, like a fish swimming in an English ocean. When I read Henry James I feel like his prose is awkward, long-winded, cumbersome, overly Latinate and doesn't flow nicely. He feels odd, as if he should've written in French or some Romance language.

What makes McCarthy's prose so good but James' prose so bad?

>>19624808
At least it allows me to listen to the cringy song.

>>19600221
Some right wing intellectuals have made the left seethe for decades, even centuries.