Alarms and Discursions

" Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art..."

Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Culturea
Published: 02/22/2023
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9791041945368

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