Writing soon after Stevenson died in Samoa, the Oxford critic sets aside the question of whether he will last and looks instead at what he was. Raleigh considers the essays, the romances and the verse, the cultivated style that some found too careful, the defence of Father Damien, and the brave, playful temperament that shows through everything he wrote.
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