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

The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist.

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee

Indeed one feels throughout the Sumb� version a more clearly defined hostility to Angantyr on the part of the balladist, whereas the Westmanhavn version is more detached in its attitude.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

As the balladist has vigorously put it— He took a long spear in his hand, Shod with the metal free, And for to meet the Douglas there, He rode right furiouslie.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

Longfellow was, of course, nothing more than a pleasant balladist and a writer of conventional thoughts on rather commonplace themes in reasonably smooth verse.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.