Yes, he writes very well. Studying "foreign" literature has not hurt his clarity or style.

I remember having an argument with an English teacher about the inclusion of "Blood Wedding" by Fredrico Garcia Lorca, not because I did not think the students should be studying a Spanish work, but because I thought he should be more accurate and remove the "English" from the title and just call his lesson Literature. The fact they were studying it in translation did not make it anything other than Spanish literature. (Mind you, I also think Lorca, like Thomas Hardy, is one of those authors who is so miserable and pessimsitic that we ought to be protecting young minds from them)

I don't think that studying foreign works necessarily undermines local culture either. For example, Shakespeare's popularity varies from country to country; the strength of his appeal must reflect the local culture.