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

In the former, the balladist treats, with dramatic fire and fine insight into the springs of action, the theme that 'To be wroth with those we love Doth work like madness in the brain.'

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

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

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee