...fan;.«, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure win upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...

...Paradise, Milton painted an unconscious, but none the less exact, picture of the Corsican bush with its Champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead there grew Insuperable height of lofty shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan...

...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...

...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head 5 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, 140 A sylvan...

...first approached by Satan, while making explicit the sexual suggestion many readers have found there": As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown . . . Access denied. (Paradise Lost, 4:134-38) I would add that in making explicit Milton's repressed...

...specifically sexual: So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...

...unseen. 130 So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound,...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...

...profoundly agitated sexual condition, Satan arrives at the wall of Eden, which "is seen as a mons Veneris, 'a rural mound, the champaign head / Of a steep wilderness,...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied' (4.13437). "10 Though Satan gains access into Eden, access to the mons Veneris will continue to elude...

...Milton's: "Paradise . . . with her enclosure green / As with a rural mound the champaign [open country] head / of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides /...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied." These lines develop from the ideas of an enclosed garden whose function is to maintain the distinction...

...steep mountain: So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, Crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deni'd (4.I3I-37) As Satan continues his exploration, he is likened to predators, "a prowling Wolf"...