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]
Publicationsedit
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
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