I find Paradise Lost unreadable, and recently failed another attempt at it. I haven't run across The Complaint of Rosamond, and I haven't found a modern edition of either The Mirror for Magistrates or Wroth's Urania.
Completely concur about Sidney's Arcadia -- I even started posting a reading of it in my LJ, but didn't finish. The posts, not the reading, I mean. I prefer the Old Arcadia, FWIW. For another prose work with a feel akin to narrative poetry, there's the The Tale of Heike.
Thankee, though -- that gives me places to point at next.
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I find Paradise Lost unreadable, and recently failed another attempt at it. I haven't run across The Complaint of Rosamond, and I haven't found a modern edition of either The Mirror for Magistrates or Wroth's Urania.
Completely concur about Sidney's Arcadia -- I even started posting a reading of it in my LJ, but didn't finish. The posts, not the reading, I mean. I prefer the Old Arcadia, FWIW. For another prose work with a feel akin to narrative poetry, there's the The Tale of Heike.
Thankee, though -- that gives me places to point at next.
---L.