elegist
- n the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
- And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood.
- In nonfiction, in fact, his principal role has been that of a warning bell and an elegist, trying to rescue traditional values and forgotten instincts from the ravages of progress.
- Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp.