elegist vs poet

elegist and poet both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
elegist	Yes	No	No	No
poet	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, poet is a hypernym of elegist; that is, poet is a word with a broader meaning than elegist:

elegist: the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
poet: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

elegist (noun)	poet (noun)
the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead	a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)