[2] One of the most influential elegiac writers was Philitas' rival Callimachus, who had an enormous impact on Roman poets, both elegists and non-elegists alike.
Callimachi Manes et Coi sacra Philetae, in vestrum, quaeso, me sinite ire nemus.
[3] Callimachus' spirit, and shrine of Philitas of Cos, let me enter your sacred grove, I beseech you.
The foremost elegiac writers of the Roman era were Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.
Similarly, William Wordsworth had said that poetry should come from "emotions recollected in tranquility" (Preface to Lyrical Ballads, emphasis added).
After the Romantics, "elegiac" slowly returned to its narrower meaning of verse composed in memory of the dead.