elegists

Hardy is one of the great elegists of all time, one of the great rememberers and regretters.

Taste Tests, Thomas Hardy, Peter Van Toorn and consistent reception 2009

Four Books of elegiac poems are attributed to Tibullus, who ranks first among Roman elegists in the view of Quintilian, x.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The hint for this procedure had, of course, come from Catullus, but it was Gallus whom succeeding elegists all accredited with the discovery.

Vergil 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.

Chapter 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne 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.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

Sir Philip Sidney was addressed as 'Willy' by some of his elegists.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Ralegh, and her elegists involuntarily followed the same fashion.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

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

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

He is generally considered the prince of elegists, and his extant fragments show great nicety and finish of expression.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Solon, Theognis, Simonides_ of _Ceos_, are among the most famous elegists.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868