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
Sweet William has always been the favourite choice of the balladist, among the Christian names of the knightly wooers.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist.
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
In Targum however, he showed himself a quite gifted balladist, far removed from the literary standard of Romantic Ballads ten years earlier.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
Always frugal in the employment of ornament in his text, the balladist never troubled to invent when he found a descriptive phrase or figure made and lying ready to his hand.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
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