balladist
Example Sentences
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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
Or a balladist, man or woman, took the centre, and sang towards our compassionate windows.
From London Films by Howells, William Dean
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
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.
So far as we are aware, only one balladist has found any genuine inspiration in it.
From Verse and Worse by Graham, Harry
