| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Acmeists |
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( k´m sts) (KEY) , school of Russian poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. Gorodetsky and Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev 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, and Osip Mandelstam. | 1 | | See L. I. Strakhovsky, Craftsmen of the Word: Three Poets of Modern Russia. | 2 |
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