ballad-maker

His purpose: to visit the long-ailing Woody Guthrie, singer, ballad-maker and poet.

Bob Dylan 1962

It was in this way that Homer, the great old ballad-maker of Greece, wrote -- or rather chanted, for in his day pens were scarce, wire-wove unknown, and the pride of Moseley undeveloped.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

[DE] These consist of a ballad-maker; a tapster; a drunkard; a rectified young man; a young nouice's new yonger wife; a common fidler; a broker; a iouiall good fellow; a humourist; a malepart yong upstart; a scold; a good wife, and a selfe-conceited parcell-witty old dotard. ix.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

But, passing far beyond the plans of these small antiquarian pleasures, Percy's book immediately enriched our whole ordinary existence by making common property of those golden figures which the undying ballad-maker had enameled into the solid tissue of

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

Professor Child, in printing this ballad in 1889, considered the details of the Russian story [1] (most of which I have omitted) to be so closely parallel to the Scottish ballad, that he was convinced that the later story was the origin of the ballad, and that the ballad-maker had located it in Mary Stuart's court on his own responsibility.

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

The ballad-maker and singer were both committed to the compter, but the poet defied government even while in the lion's den.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 Various

"Pleasant Historic of Thomas of Reading; or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West," by Thomas Deloney, a famous ballad-maker of the 16th century.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Virgil, on the contrary, had but little of the ballad-maker in his composition.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

The accident that led to this fortunate reconnoitre is not impertinent to our subject: in a time of dearth, which was severely felt in the city, the famous ballad-maker Delone composed a song reflecting on her

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 Various

+The Story+ is one which naturally attracted the attention of the popular ballad-maker, and parallel ballads exist in fairly wide European distribution.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick