...deer-park,which, like Milton's Paradise, " Crowns with an enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaigne head Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With...grotesque and wild, Access denied : and over-head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade; Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...

...boundaries of EDEN as possessing this advantage of a rising stage for the display of foliage. "the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild — A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view."...

...his gestures fierce He marked and mad demeanour, then alone, As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. 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, the champain head Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With...

..."History of Moscovia". I. The Approach to Paradise, compared to the Forests of Northern Russia. 4.131 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, the champain head 5 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides...

...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...

...glimpse of paradise is an astonishing synthesis of the broadly sensual and the 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 the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides...

...fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of...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...

...from the savage world outside: Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, Crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deni'd. (4-132-7) The geocosm, then, mirrors the universe at large: as the Aristotelian cosmos is a...