Poet, say, among group of very minor celebs?

• Poet like Thomas Gray
• Ovid, during his exile
• Gray was one
• Thomas Gray, for one
• Rilke, for one
• The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
• Bard for the bereaved

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegist \El"e*gist\, n. A write of elegies. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster] ||

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