elegistn.
/ˈɛlᵻdʒɪst/, U.S. /ˈɛlədʒəst/ A writer of elegies. Cf. elegiast n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > lyric poet > elegiac poet
elegiaca1586
elegiac poeta1586
elegiographer1623
elegiast1720
monodist1751
elegist1762
threnodist1827
1762 Crit. Rev. Aug. 132 The historian has not deigned to lavish servile adulation even upon the sovereign, or to mingle in the venal crowd of unlamenting elegists.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ii. 108 Our elegist, and the chroniclers, impute the crime..to the advice of the king of France.
1813 Monthly Rev. 70 App. 455 He wrote an epistle on the art of poetry..which is addressed to his pupil, imitator, and elegist, Inigo Lopez de Mendoza.
1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare vi. 81 Sir Philip Sidney was addressed as ‘Willy’ by some of his elegists.
1916 Mod. Lang. Rev. 11 498 Hardy to our mind is an elegist among novelists.
1952 M. Hadas Hist. Lat. Lit. x. 184 The roster of Roman elegists is conveniently presented in a passage in Ovid.
2008 Poetry Ireland Rev. 95 107 The elegist addresses her dead father in a poem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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