legist

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These novelists are, at their hearts, elegists for time gone by.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2021

Has Kissinger, sly and witty, revived the tale as a wink toward his elegists?

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

And maybe Brooklyn was never the rabid, hand-holding Brooklyn of our literate Dodger elegists.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2016

For Roman elegy is mainly amatory or sentimental; and its masters imitated, as a rule, not the early Greek elegists, not Tyrtaeus or Theognis, but the later Alexandrian elegists, such as Callimachus or Philetas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

This is no reminiscence of the Roman elegists, but true modern sentiment.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter