The mother of the muses requires her sacrifice. We shall offer it and thereby
repudiate all those critics who aver that ours is an age without a memory.
Memorize the first verse-paragraph from Paradise Lost (ll. 1-26). Learn it by
heart. On Monday, November 21st, I�ll ask you to write it down from memory at the
beginning of class, and your score will be 26 points minus a half point for
each error committed. This total will be added to your quiz scores. Even punctuation counts. As Blake says in his
Milton
(1804), �the daughters of memory shall become the daughters of inspiration.�