Norman Gale

Norman Rowland Gale (4 March 1862 – 7 October 1942) was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.

His best-known poem is probably The Country Faith, which is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

Publications

 * A Country Muse (2 vols), 1892
 * Orchard Songs, 1893
 * A June Romance, 1894
 * All Expenses Paid, 1895
 * Cricket Songs, 1894
 * Songs for Little People, 1896
 * (ed.) Poems by John Clare, 1901
 * Barty's Star, 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