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If Milton's oeuvre itself is daunting, Milton scholarship must appear much more so. Huckabay and Klemp (see 23, below) document some 4,500 studies appearing between the years 1968 and 1988 alone; the MLA International Bibliography (see 32, below) records another 1,500 for the ten years prior to 1998; and several hundred items a year continue to be published. Inordinate as this plethora of writings may sometimes seem, it is in fact a measure of Milton's continued vitality, and it offers the student of Milton much good company. Although of course there is no substitute for firsthand engagement with Milton himself, the following list of over three hundred items is intended (complementary to the reading lists at the end of the preceding chapters) as an avenue into the disparate but companionable society of Milton's many editors, expositors, critics, and admirers - and also as a tool with which one may develop one's own links with the ongoing world of Milton scholarship.