Answer:

ELEGIST

Answer	Crossword Clue
ELEGIST	Shelley or Gray
ELEGIST	Ovid, during his exile
ELEGIST	Sad poet

ELEGIST	Writer of sad poems
ELEGIST	Gray, e.g.
ELEGIST	Thomas Gray, e.g.
ELEGIST	Donne, for one
ELEGIST	Thomas Gray, for one
ELEGIST	Poet writing dirges.
ELEGIST	Writer of laments.
ELEGIST	Composer of laments.

ELEGIST	Poet like Thomas Gray.
ELEGIST	Writer of plaintive verse.
ELEGIST	Composer of threnodies.
ELEGIST	Writer of mournful verse.
ELEGIST	Gray was one
ELEGIST	Thomas Gray was one
ELEGIST	Gray, for one
ELEGIST	Writer of pieces in passing?

ELEGIST	Thomas Gray, notably
ELEGIST	Rilke, for one

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.