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
A Czech balladist describes two chieftains travelling towards the sunrise, with mountains to the right and to the left, on whose summit stands the dawn.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
But according to the balladist his career, on one occasion, had well nigh terminated disastrously.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
So far as we are aware, only one balladist has found any genuine inspiration in it.
From Verse and Worse by Harry Graham
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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
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