Balladist

Dan Sheahan: Bush balladist (The pub without beer) by Irene Maskell ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

One inclines to agree with Mr. Stedman: "Of all our poets he (Whittier) is the most natural balladist." ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

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 ❋ Various (N/A)

Yonder, too, is a balladist with a guitar, bawling at the top of his lungs, ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)

Jarvis remembered an old verse of the greatest balladist of the century: ❋ Paul Dickey (1909)

The true balladist is never introspective; he is concerned not with himself but with his story. ❋ George Wharton Edwards (1904)

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. ❋ Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 (1901)

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. ❋ Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)

The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist. ❋ Katherine Lee Bates (1894)

Who would ever dream that the question of the balladist, himself an able dreamer concerning classic things, "Where are the Cities of Old Time," could ever find its answer in a simple guide-book telling us where ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

_Targum_ however, he showed himself a quite gifted balladist, far removed from the literary standard of _Romantic Ballads_ ten years earlier. ❋ Clement King Shorter (1891)

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 ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)