Thomas Gray, e.g

• Writer of pieces in passing?
• The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
• Thomas Gray, e.g.
• Gray was one
• Gray, for one
• Woman returns after clear message (delivered starkly?)
• Ovid, during his exile
• Thomas Gray, notably

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