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

But according to the balladist his career, on one occasion, had well nigh terminated disastrously.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

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

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)