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

According to the balladist, it would seem that Armstrong’s ruin was brought about by the princely style in which he appeared before his sovereign.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

Thirty years ago blue china was a kind of fetish in some circles, aesthetic circles, of which the balladist was not a member.

From Ballads in Blue China by Lang, Andrew

The President then told him how to secure a pass into the lines of the army, and the man went forth to write and to sing his inspirations, like a balladist of old.

From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Butterworth, Hezekiah

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)