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
The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist.
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
Her ambition was whetted for an exercise of actual power, and the outcome was the famous battle of Beverwyck, whose story still lacks its balladist.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
More of More Hall was nothing at all For a balladist to brag on, Compared with our Knight of the Watering Pot— If he'll slay our River Dragon!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various
