Acmeist

Definitions

adjective Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.
noun An Acmeist poet, a member of the Acmeist school.

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Anna Akhmatova had been in her youth one of the 'Acmeist' poets, along with her husband Gumilev and Mandelstam.

Poems with a Heroine Bayley, John 1984
Acmeist movement in Russia with her husband, the poet Gumilev, and Osip

45 entries from March 2008 2008
Acmeist movement in Russia with her husband, the poet Gumilev, and Osip

Anna Akhmatova 2008
Respect for the Word was a Acmeist principle and Akhmatova is seen as a true keeper of the Word:

Anna Akhmatova 2008
Acmeist movement in Russia with her husband, the poet Gumilev, and Osip

Anna Akhmatova 2008
Zenkevich, onetime poet and former Acmeist colleague of Mandelstam; now a servant of the regime.

IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS * Act I , scene 3 2010
I held while Valerii Yakovlevich Briusov, Russian Neo-Acmeist and the only poet with four i's in his name, read from his justifiably-obscureoeuvre.

A Session With My Poetry Coach 2010
Respect for the Word was a Acmeist principle and Akhmatova is seen as a true keeper of the Word:

45 entries from March 2008 2008
Zenkevich (A poet, formerly with Mandelstam, an Acmeist, now a loyal servant of the regime)

IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS 2010
Respect for the Word was a Acmeist principle and Akhmatova is seen as a true keeper of the Word:

Anna Akhmatova 2008