Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

The melancholy cry sounds an uneasy reminder of all those excluded from material comfort The Owl Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved; Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof Against the ...

Driving home late the other week I was startled by a sudden apparition that flew out of the night, passed in front of my car and disappeared again. It was, of course, an owl, that great symbolic bird ...