Biography of Norman Rowland Gale
Norman Rowland Gale (4 March 1862 – 7 October 1942) was a poet, novelist and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.Gale was born in Kew, Surrey. He entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1880 and graduated in 1884. He was a teacher for some years, but in 1892 he began writing full-time. His poems "Betrothed" and "The Call" appeared in The Yellow Book. His best-known poem is probably "The Country Faith", which is in The Oxford Book of English Verse. In the United States, Louis Untermeyer included it in his anthology Modern British Poetry, and, with a change of title to "Life in the Country", it opened the second reader in Cora Wilson Stewart's series, Country Life Readers.For the last two years of his life Gale lived in Headley Down, Hampshire, where he died at the age of eighty.Publications
A Country Muse, 1892; reprinted with additions as A Country Muse: First Series, 1894
A Country Muse: New Series, 1893; reprinted with additions as A Country Muse: Second Series, 1895
Orchard Songs, 1893
A June Romance (novel), 1894
All Expenses Paid, 1895
Cricket Songs, 1894
Songs for Little People, 1896
(ed.) Poems by John Clare, 1901
Barty's Star (novel), 1903
More Cricket Songs, 1905
A Book of Quatrains, 1909
Song in September, 1912
Solitude, 1913
Collected Poems, 1914
The Candid Cuckoo, 1918
A Merry-go-Round of Song, 1919
Verse in Bloom, 1925
A Flight of Fancies, 1926
Messrs Bat and Ball, 1930
Close of Play, 1936
Remembrances, 1937
Love-in-a-Mist, 1939
References
Who was Who
External links
Works by Norman Gale at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Norman Gale at Internet Archive
Archive Material at Leeds University Library
Works by Norman Gale at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Poems by Norman Rowland Gale