Norman Gale Explained
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.[1]
Gale was born in Kew, Surrey. He entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1880 and graduated in 1884.[2] He was a teacher for some years, but in 1892 he began writing full-time.[3] His poems "Betrothed" and "The Call" appeared in The Yellow Book.[4] [5] His best-known poem is probably "The Country Faith",[6] 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.[7]
For the last two years of his life Gale lived in Headley Down, Hampshire, where he died at the age of eighty.[8]
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
- Cricket Songs, 1894
- All Expenses Paid, 1895
- 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
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Norman Rowland Gale. allpoetry.com. All Poetry. 16 January 2015.
- Michael Seeney, A Six Foot Three Nightingale: Norman Gale, 1862–1942: A Biographical Essay and Check-List (Oxford: Rivendale Press, 1998), p. 3
- Louis Untermeyer (ed.), Modern British Poetry: A Critical Introduction, 3rd revised edition (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930), p. 278
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Book/Volume_2/Betrothed "Betrothed"
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Book/Volume_5/The_Call "The Call"
- https://www.bartleby.com/246/1102.html "The Country Faith"
- Jane Greer, "Literacy, Learning and Letters: Cora Wilson Stewart's Moonlight Schools, 1911–1930", Midwest Modern Language Association (2000)
- Hampshire Telegraph and Post (23 October 1942), p. 8
