When the affair was discovered, the love-struck elegist was arrested and thrown in jail. |
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The lamentation genre was the province of a separate professional, the elegist. |
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Despite his Marxist trappings, he was really a bourgeois elegist, a prose poet singing of lost childhood realms. |
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If Rautavaara is a dreamer, Sallinen is an ironist, an elegist, a dealer in lyric fragments. |
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The play is cold to alternatives — to the notion of Housman as rural elegist, for instance. |
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Cohen is still our elegist for the ages, even when his song spanned several cultural moments. |
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Kaplan was an elegist by temperament and register, and writing about him frequently takes on the sepia-toned tincture of his thought. |
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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. |
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