Glee? It’s unusual for this writer

• Thomas Gray, for one
• Part of the leg is theme for poet
• Thomas Gray, e.g
• Bard for the bereaved
• Woman returns after clear message (delivered starkly?)
• Ovid, during his exile
• Rilke, for one
• Gray, for one

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

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead