"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" seldom receives its due as an enduring piece of early English literature. Partly that's because, after being composed by an anonymous medieval poet around 1400, the ...

Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written about 600 years ago by an unknown author The poem has got just about ...

When it comes to winter-holiday literary classics, you’ve got Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” — and then what? Clearly there are still some vacancies ...

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 ...

Simon Armitage is fascinated by epic journeys. The prolific, 49-year-old English poet and author has published acclaimed translations of 14th century travel-adventure Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...

As the European Union struggled to come together over the debt crisis – and as the egos of Germany’s Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy clashed with each other and the ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. The Yorkshire poet follows his Gawain translation with another ...