Possible Clues:

• Poet, for example, among fifth-rate celebrities
• Writer gets lie disseminated
• Son allowed out on drugs, one wrote mournfully
• English stickler for the law loses heart to poet
• Gray, for example, put in English syllabus
• It's glee, shown strangely by a mournful poet
• Part of Ezekiel, e.g., is the source of mournful verses
• Stranger grabbing supporter is bemoaning linesman
• Point to one knowing the law, a reflective writer
• Gray, say, was celeb at heart with significance