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Robert Norwood was an Anglican and Episcopal clergyman, poet, and author from Nova Scotia. He was born in New Ross, Nova Scotia in 1874, and entered the University of King's College in 1892. He withdrew due to a lack of funding, and worked as a lay reader in Jeddore and Ship Harbour for a year. He was able to return to King's in 1894, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1897, when he was also ordained deacon the Church of England. He was ordained as a Priest in 1898. He became the curate of Holy Trinity Church in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 1900, and obtained a Master of Arts from the University of King's College in 1904. After attempting to pursue an MA at Columbia University, he returned to Nova Scotia in 1907 to become a rector in Springhill. Two years later, he moved to Montreal, Quebec to be the curate of Trinity Church, then to London, Ontario in 1912 to be the rector at Cronyn Memorial Church. His popularity as a preacher in London saw him appointed to St. Paul's Overlook Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1917. He then moved to New York City, New York, United States to serve at St. Bartholomew's Church. Despite living in the United States, and even becoming a US citizen in 1923, Norwood continued to spend time in Nova Scotia, building a summer home in Hubbard's Cove with his wife. He received an honourary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of King's College in 1921, and was part of The Song Fishermen, a group of Maritime poets led by journalist Andrew Merkel. He passed away in 1933 in New York, and was buried in Hubbard's Cove, Nova Scotia.
He published poetry, plays, and religious writings throughout his life, starting in 1898 with Driftwood, which he published with William Vernon.
Other publications of his included:
His Lady of the Sonnets (1915) The Witch of Endor (1916) The Piper and the Reed (1917) The Modernists (1918) The Man of Kerioth (1919) Mother and Son (1925) The Heresy of Antioch (1928) The Steep Ascent (1928) The Man Who Dared To Be God (1929) His Glorious Body (1930) The Hiding God: Divinity in Man (1933)