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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 , 1886–1921, Russian poet. With his wife, the poet Anna Akhmatova, and Gorodetsky Gumilev, he founded the Acmeist school of poetry in 1912.
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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 , pseud. of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , 1888–1966, Russian poet of the Acmeist school. Her brief lyrics, simply and musically written in the tradition of Pushkin, attained great popularity.
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, and Osip Mandelstam Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich , 1892–1938, Russian poet. Mandelstam was a leader of the Acmeist school. He wrote impersonal, fatalistic, meticulously constructed poems, the best of which are collected in Kamen [stone] (1913) and Tristia (1922).
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Bibliography

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



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When Osip and Nadezhda met in 1919, he had already published his first collection of poems, Kamen (The Stone) and was, together with Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev, a leading member of the Acmeists writers' group, whose guiding principles of economy and precision were to underpin all that Mandelstam wrote.
 
 
 
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