balladist
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This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift.
From Time Magazine Archive
So that here at least we have a vague echo of the name of a balladist and of a ballad-air composer.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
The modern balladist attacks the ascetic Middle Age with a shaft from its own quiver.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
A Czech balladist describes two chieftains travelling towards the sunrise, with mountains to the right and to the left, on whose summit stands the dawn.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
This unknown balladist was Mr. Henley; perhaps he was the first Englishman who ever burst into a double ballade, and his translations of two of Villon's ballades into modern thieves' slang were marvels of dexterity.
From Ballads in Blue China by Andrew Lang
