| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Australia, East to West Oxford 58 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Travel: The Eye of the Traveler |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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