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Definition of Elegist
1. Noun. The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead.
Definition of Elegist
1. n. A write of elegies.
Definition of Elegist
1. Noun. A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elegist
1. one that writes elegies [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegist
Literary usage of Elegist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"Urian Oakes himself was not so fortunate in his elegist, no less a person than
the Rev. Cotton Mather, the most prolific elegist of his time. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... who flourished in the ?th century, is the earliest elegist of whom we possess
fragments. A little later Tyrtaeus was composing his famous elegies in ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Dim and shadowy names are those of the slaughtered warriors; equally dim and
shadowy is the figure of their elegist. Like Llywarch Hen he was a warrior poet ..."
4. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"... the representative elegist of Hellenism), and the rise of the pastoral and
romantic ... and Parthenius of Nicaea, the 'ast great elegist of the school, ..."
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