elegist

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

elegist
    n 1: the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Elegist \El"e*gist\, n.
   A write of elegies. --T. Warton.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "elegist":
      Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, balladmonger,
      bard, beat poet, bucoliast, epic poet, fili, idyllist, imagist,
      jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger,
      minor poet, minstrel, modernist, occasional poet, odist,
      pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress,
      rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scop, skald, sonneteer, symbolist,
      troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist