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How to use elegist in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word elegist? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
When the affair was discovered, the love-struck elegist was arrested and thrown in jail.
The lamentation genre was the province of a separate professional, the elegist.
Despite his Marxist trappings, he was really a bourgeois elegist, a prose poet singing of lost childhood realms.
If Rautavaara is a dreamer, Sallinen is an ironist, an elegist, a dealer in lyric fragments.
The play is cold to alternatives — to the notion of Housman as rural elegist, for instance.
Cohen is still our elegist for the ages, even when his song spanned several cultural moments.
Kaplan was an elegist by temperament and register, and writing about him frequently takes on the sepia-toned tincture of his thought.
But it's the elegist in him that wants to itemize every inch of New York's surface, as though to erect a sturdy, wall-like counterfactual against the grief that he cannot admit.
Examples from Classical Literature
God is always in the thoughts of the elegist, and that is why He is not named.
Among this group was Bouilhet, the elegist, the poet of moonlight and ruins.
This, however, is not the line of reflections followed by the elegist in the present instance.
From an idyllist and elegist we find him suddenly transformed into an unsparing master of poetical satire.
The elegist does not attempt to deny this, or to minimise the fact.
Like the muezzin on his minaret, the elegist calls to prayer.
The fashion demanded that the elegist be learned in Greek mythology.
The elegist deplores this grievance as part of the reproach of his people.
This we have already seen was what the elegist had learnt to do.
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