...there, for apparently his mind is on other things: So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Ed en, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, Crowns with...enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champain head With thicket overgrown, grottesque and wilde, Of a steep wilderness, whose hairie sides Access deni'd....

...the perimeter. Paradise is constructed to prevent intruders: its "enclosure green" is protected by "a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides / With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access deni'd" (Paradise Lost 1v. 133-7). Worthy of defences by Thomas Digges, Milton then builds upon this...

...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied. (LM 4.131-36) Like Eve's veiling or Jacob's ladder, the "access denied" here is not physical or even...

...gestures fierce He marked, and mad demeanour, then alone, As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. 130 So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden,...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head0 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,0...

...gestures fierce He mark'd and mad demeanor, then alone, As he suppos'd, all unobserv'd, unseen. 130 So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 135 no. Cf. I, 165, and IX, 122-23. Somewhere...

...Reason of Church Government). Woody theatres and moving mounds Of Eden, where delicious Paradise . . . As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ... as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre of stateliest view . . . Paradise Lost,...

...border of Eden." Now what happens? Well, we retain Satan's point of view, since the narrative says "where delicious Paradise, / Now nearer, Crowns with...rural mound the champain head/ Of a steep wilderness." That "Now nearer" clearly situates us with Satan, and what we see is what he sees. Even the present...

...description of Paradise. "Where Eden crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...

...within a passage that describes Satan as he approaches paradise, where he will tempt Eve (131-141): So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,...

...dependence on wage labor."54 The enclosed character of Eden and the portrayal of Satan as outsider ("So on he fares, and to the border comes / Of Eden,...Paradise, / Now nearer. Crowns with her enclosure green;" 4.131-3), simultaneously poacher and city dweller, help to historicize Milton's Utopia. The simple...