balladist

• “Dan Sheahan: Bush balladist (The pub without beer) by Irene Maskell”

  Joe Sixpack Speaks Out

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies

• “One inclines to agree with Mr. Stedman: "Of all our poets he (Whittier) is the most natural balladist.”

  The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics

• “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

• “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”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878

• “Yonder, too, is a balladist with a guitar, bawling at the top of his lungs,”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878

• “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.”

  Irish Plays and Playwrights

• “Jarvis remembered an old verse of the greatest balladist of the century:”

  The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play

• “The true balladist is never introspective; he is concerned not with himself but with his story.”

  The Book of Old English Ballads

• “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.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

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