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Acmeists
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Acmeists (ăk`mēĭsts), school of Russian poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. Gorodetsky and Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich (nyĭkəlī` styĭpä`nəvĭch g
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 as a reaction against the mysticism of the symbolists. The school aspired to concreteness of imagery and clarity of expression. The leading Acmeists were Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova Akhmatova, Anna (än`nə əkhmä`təvə), pseud.
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, and Osip Mandelstam Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich (ô`sĭp ĕmyēl`yəvĭch män`dĭlstəm), 1892–1938, Russian poet.
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Bibliography

See L. I. Strakhovsky, Craftsmen of the Word: Three Poets of Modern Russia.


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