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John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, continues to generate large amounts of important scholarship, averaging one hundred books and articles each year. Paradise Lost: An Annotated Bibliography provides literary scholars and students at all levels with a comprehensive reference guide to the most important twentieth-century scholarship on this classic. It pays special attention to the important new approaches of the past quarter century including New Historicist, Feminist, and Marxist criticism. Each listing is annotated with content descriptions for reference works and summaries of the main arguments of analytical works. The bibliography is fully indexed by author and subject.