The modern balladist attacks the ascetic Middle Age with a shaft from its own quiver.
This unknown balladist was Mr. Henley; perhaps he was the first Englishman who ever burst into a double ballade, and his translations of two of Villon's ballades into modern thieves' slang were marvels of dexterity.
Thirty years ago blue china was a kind of fetish in some circles, aesthetic circles, of which the balladist was not a member.
But according to the balladist his career, on one occasion, had well nigh terminated disastrously.
As the balladist has vigorously put it-- He took a long spear in his hand, Shod with the metal free, And for to meet the Douglas there, He rode right furiouslie.
The balladist finely represents him as saying-- My hands are tied, but my tongue is free, And whae will dare this deed avow?
The picture drawn by the balladist is graphic in the extreme.
And because 'The marriage and the kirkin' Were baith held on ae day,' our simple balladist bids us believe that the twain lived happily ever after.
The balladist and his men and women speak straight to the point, and call a spade a spade.
In the former, the balladist treats, with dramatic fire and fine insight into the springs of action, the theme that 'To be wroth with those we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Always frugal in the employment of ornament in his text, the balladistnever troubled to invent when he found a descriptive phrase or figure made and lying ready to his hand.
So that here at least we have a vague echo of the name of a balladist and of a ballad-air composer.
But the balladist carries everything before him by the verve and good humour and pawky wit of his song.
Here and there one seems to get a glimpse of the balladist himself, as onlooker or as actor in the scenes of fateful love and deathless grief which he has fixed for ever in the memory of men of his race and blood.
A Czech balladist describes two chieftains travelling towards the sunrise, with mountains to the right and to the left, on whose summit stands the dawn.
This fact we may accept; but the question comes up: Is Homer such a balladist and nothing more?
We see that the English balladist is an unwarlike literary hack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balladist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: composer; hymnist; librettist; minstrel; poet; scorer; troubadour
