Blue bard (7)

I believe the answer is:

elegist

(Other definitions for elegist that I've seen before include "Gloomy poet" , "one wrote mournfully" , "bemoaning linesman" , "Mournful poet" , "Writer of mournful verse" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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