Lyrically, the poet Olavo Bilac, named it " " ( . . . ) desconhecida e obscura . / Tuba de alto clangor, lira singela, / Que tens o trom e o silvo da procela, / E o arrolo da saudade e da ternura ! " ", which roughly translates as " ( . . . ) unknown and obscure, / Tuba of high blare, delicate lyre, / That holds the frill and the hiss of the tempest / And the singing of the saudade and of the tenderness !"
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Reviewing a 1952 edition, McComas praised the novel lavishly, describing it as " one of the major imaginative novels of this century " and " the detailed creation of a vividly heroic alien history . " They particularly commended " the resonant clangor of its prose, the tremendous impetus of its story-telling, [ and ] the magnificent audacity ( and sternly convincing consistency ) of its fantasy concepts . " Donald Barr declared that Eddison wrote " in a heroic prose made of high ceremonial gestures and tropes from the great age of metaphor and described " The Worm " as being " quite unique among modern novels " as " a narrative of pure event " where, with a lone exception, " we are never given the interior of a character, only the actions ".
