Acmeist

English

Alternative forms

• acmeist

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăkʹ-mē-ĭst, IPA^(key): /ˈæk.mi.ɪst/
• Rhymes: -ækmiɪst

Adjective

Acmeist (comparative more Acmeist, superlative most Acmeist)

1. Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.
   • 1973, Clarence Brown, Mandelstam, Cambridge University Press, published 1978, →ISBN, page 185:

     He was Acmeist in spades.

   • 1995, Justin Doherty, The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the Word, Clarendon Press, page 192:

     As such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist.

   • 2006, Kirsten Blythe Painter, Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     The poem is also Acmeist in the speaker’s countering of his previous emotional abandon (“a thousand sorrows”) with his present moderation—a simple declaration of love instead of exhaustion and yearning.

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Noun

Acmeist (plural Acmeists)

1. An Acmeist poet, a member of the Acmeist school.
   • 1993 July 11, Jodi Daynard, “In Short: Nonfiction”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, who died in 1966 at the age of 77, belongs to the latter category. One of the leading poets of her era, she was a member of the Acmeists, a group of poets who sought—unlike the mystical Symbolists who preceded them—to write about the tangible world.

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Further reading

• Acmeist poetry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• etacism, meticas, sematic