Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
3591
AUTHOR:
Arnold Toynbee
QUOTATION:
Angkor is not orchestral; it is monumental. It is an epic poem which makes its effect, like the Odyssey and like Paradise Lost, by the grandeur of its structure as well as by the beauty of the details…. an epic in rectangular forms imposed upon the Cambodian jungle.
