The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

• Poet like Thomas Gray
• Gray was one
• Writer of sad poems
• Ovid, during his exile
• Thomas Gray, notably
• Thomas Gray, e.g.
• Poet, say, among group of very minor celebs?
• Bard for the bereaved
• Gray is one for example appearing in computer catalogue?

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.