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These novelists are, at their hearts, elegists for time gone by.

Has Kissinger, sly and witty, revived the tale as a wink toward his elegists?

One of the few who came to Mr. Adams’s defense was the writer Jeremiah Moss, New York City’s career elegist, who embraced the suggestion that the wrong people ought to leave.

Baker, like Yeats, was an elegist even before he’d suffered much loss.

Cohen, a member of the generation that had “grown up with books,” as he tells us, “only to exchange them for millennial adulthood and screens,” is a young elegist for an old idea: ideas.