Early Landscapes

Abstract

G. K. Chesterton says at the beginning of his Autobiography that his first memory was of ‘a young man walking across a bridge … he carried in his hand a disproportionately large key of a shining yellow metal and wore a large golden or gilded crown’. As he himself realised the image was a summation of the explorations of his life. It reflected the sense of immanent danger on either side of the bridge and the possibility of achieving an understanding of his life if he could only cross the bridge.