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

Indeed your balladist, like Allan Breck Stewart, was never a bigoted partisan of the law.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

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 Geddie, John

The picture drawn by the balladist is graphic in the extreme.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)