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Acmeist
Acmeist
See also: acmeist
English
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Adjective
Acmeist (comparative more Acmeist, superlative most Acmeist)
- Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.
- 1973, Clarence Brown, Mandelstam, Cambridge University Press (1978), ISBN 978-0-521-29347-1, 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 978-0-8047-5075-2, 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.
- 1973, Clarence Brown, Mandelstam, Cambridge University Press (1978), ISBN 978-0-521-29347-1, page 185:
Translations
pertaining to Acmeism
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Noun
Acmeist (plural Acmeists)
- An Acmeist poet, a member of the Acmeist school.
Translations
a poet member of the Acmeist school
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