Norman Gale
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For the Wales international rugby union player see Norman Gale (rugby player)
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
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Norman Gale (rugby player)
Norman Gale was a Welsh rugby union player. A hooker, he captained the Wales national rugby union team on two occasions in 1967-68. Gale played his club rugby for Llanelli RFC and Swansea RFC, but it was with the Scarlets of Llanelli that he is most associated...
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
Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse most commonly means the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation...
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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 ClareJohn ClareJohn Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...
, 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