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Acmeism
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Acmeism
the work and theories of the Acmeists, an anti-symbolist movement of early twentieth-century Russian poets, including Mandelstam and Akhmatova, who strove for lucidity of style, definiteness, and texture in their poetry. — acmeist, n., adj..
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Petersburg (1911) at the Bashnia and that same year the Acmeist poet Gumilev brought his young wife Anna Akhmatova to read her early poems.
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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