Elegists

Hardy is one of the great elegists of all time, one of the great rememberers and regretters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Four Books of elegiac poems are attributed to Tibullus, who ranks first among Roman elegists in the view of Quintilian, x. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

The hint for this procedure had, of course, come from Catullus, but it was Gallus whom succeeding elegists all accredited with the discovery. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)

Although The House of the Seven Gables points forward to a whole school of prose elegists recording the New England decline, Hawthorne himself wrote while his corner of the country was still thriving and busy. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Christianity, of Germanism and Romanism, and it is only now and then among the Roman elegists and later epic poets that we meet a feeling for Nature which can be compared to his. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)

Sir Philip Sidney was addressed as 'Willy' by some of his elegists. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

Ralegh, and her elegists involuntarily followed the same fashion. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

This is no reminiscence of the Roman elegists, but true modern sentiment. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

He is generally considered the prince of elegists, and his extant fragments show great nicety and finish of expression. ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)

Solon, Theognis, Simonides_ of _Ceos_, are among the most famous elegists. ❋ George Park Fisher (1868)

Michael writes a series of elegies to the elegists of the past and asks whether, in the way it captures lost moments, objects and people, all poetry is elegy. ❋ Unknown (2008)