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Norman Gale
1862–1942
Remembered for light, musical verse that often turns to country life, childhood, and the pleasures of ordinary days, this English writer published steadily for nearly fifty years. His work moves easily between poetry, stories, and reviews, with a gentle charm that made him a familiar literary voice of his time.
2 Audiobooks
Cricket Songs
by Norman Gale
More Cricket Songs
by Norman Gale
About the author
Born in Kew, Surrey, on March 4, 1862, Norman Rowland Gale was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1884. He spent several years teaching before turning to writing full time in 1892, beginning a long literary career that would stretch across poetry, fiction, and criticism.
Gale became known as a poet, novelist, and reviewer, publishing many books over the course of nearly half a century. He is especially associated with graceful, accessible verse, including poems about rural life and childhood, and he also wrote popular collections such as Cricket Songs and Songs for Little People.
He died on October 7, 1942. Though he is less widely read now than some of his contemporaries, his writing still offers a warm, tuneful glimpse of late Victorian and early 20th-century English literary taste.