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