Yonder, too, is a balladist with a guitar, bawling at the top of his lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

One inclines to agree with Mr. Stedman: "Of all our poets he (Whittier) is the most natural balladist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics] Reference

Mr. Alfred Noyes (born 1880) is a refreshingly true lyric poet and balladist, and Mr. John Masefield has daringly enlarged the field of poetry by frank but very sincere treatment of extremely realistic subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Still she hesitates, and throws a shrinking glance over the vast audience gathered on the sands silently attentive -- the band, the organ-grinder and the balladist all breathlessly awaiting the issue, no doubt feeling that it would be mockery to indulge in music at such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

Novelist and balladist, appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference

Jarvis remembered an old verse of the greatest balladist of the century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference

The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballad Book] Reference

The modern balladist attacks the ascetic Middle Age with a shaft from its own quiver.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Or a balladist, man or woman, took the centre, and sang towards our compassionate windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Films] Reference

This fact we may accept; but the question comes up: Is Homer such a balladist and nothing more?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

The true balladist is never introspective; he is concerned not with himself but with his story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Old English Ballads] Reference

"The Sea" at the bijou Olympic, (Broadway near Grand,) was always welcome from a little Englishman named Edwin, a good balladist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Aytoun the second, balladist, humorist, and Tory, in proportions of about equal importance, -- one of the group of wits and devotees of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference

Madame Patti's last visit to America when she sold herself to a trumpery balladist, and, affecting the appearance and manner which had been hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

We see that as a balladist Schiller got his inspiration mainly from two sources: the traditions of Greek antiquity and the traditions of chivalrous romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

Mrs. Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference

An inclusion of nearly all the effective lyrics of Poe, and of enough of Emerson to show his translunary spirit at full height, still left each of these antipodal bards within smaller confines than are given to Longfellow, —the people’s “artist of the beautiful” through half a century of steadfast production, or to Whittier—the born balladist, whose manner and purport could not be set forth compactly.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Another Scotch balladist was William Motherwell, one of the most competent of ballad scholars and editors, whose "Minstrelsy: Ancient and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Its magnificent choruses are sung by men, and Germany is the home of the Männergesang; among the opera's songs are echoes of the Volkslied -- ditties which seem to have been caught up in the German nurseries or plucked off the lips of the itinerant German balladist; its emotional music is heartfelt, warm, ingenuous, and in form and spirit free from the artificiality of Italian opera as it was in Mozart's day and as it continued to be for a long time thereafter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference

Beverwyck, whose story still lacks its balladist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

A balladist of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference