| If Rautavaara is a dreamer, Sallinen is an ironist, an elegist, a dealer in lyric fragments. |
| God is always in the thoughts of the elegist, and that is why He is not named. |
| The play is cold to alternatives — to the notion of Housman as rural elegist, for instance. |
| This, however, is not the line of reflections followed by the elegist in the present instance. |
| Kaplan was an elegist by temperament and register, and writing about him frequently takes on the sepia-toned tincture of his thought. |
| Cohen is still our elegist for the ages, even when his song spanned several cultural moments. |
