[Milton-L] Milton and Gardens: queries on JM's aesthetics

[alan horn]

As natural as it is for us in our fallen state to think of boundaries
as taking away freedom, for Milton true liberty is the willing
acceptance of rational limits. This may have something to do with the
wall issue. It's only after the expulsion from Eden that these walls
are perceived to be limits, shutting Adam and Eve out. Now that they
have all the world before them it's a deprivation, leaving them to
wander in search of a resting place.

Alan H.