Paradise found
Sir: I don't know about Brahrns, but lg Mortimer has no right to denigrate Mil ton in such a cavalier fashion (2' November). The description of the 'rite mysterious of connubial love' in Book IV Paradise Lost may indeed be dull. But b Book IX Milton's poetic imagination Wa fired to such an extent that he wrote some c the .loveliest lines of erotic poetry eve penned, when Adam forebore not glance or toy Of amorous intent, well understood Of Eve, whose eye darted contagiou fire. Her hand he seized, and to a slIrd: bank, Thick overhead with verdant 1'0° imbow 'rd, He led her, nothing loth. . . .
The fact that this event took place afte the tasting of the forbidden fruit make Mr Mortimer's point rather bettel perhaps, than he made it himself.
Revd Gordon Wilson St John's Vicarage, 14 Dane Bank Avenue, Crewe
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