Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A singer or composer of ballads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer or singer of ballads.
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Examples
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Dan Sheahan: Bush balladist (The pub without beer) by Irene Maskell
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I can read his poetry with emotion, but I read it for some glimpse of what he might have been as Border balladist, or Cavalier,26 or of what he actually was, not as poet but as man.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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One inclines to agree with Mr. Stedman: "Of all our poets he (Whittier) is the most natural balladist."
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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.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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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
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