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Acmeism|ˈækmiːɪzm|
[ad. Russ. akmeizm, f. Gr. ἀκµή acme: see -ism.]
An early twentieth-century movement in Russian poetry which rejected the values of Symbolism in favour of formal technique and clarity of exposition; the poetic theory represented by this movement.
1926D. S. Mirsky Contemp. Russ. Lit. vi. 253 Acmeism (the rather ridiculous word was suggested with a satirical intention by a hostile Symbolist and defiantly accepted by the new school..) had its centre in St. Petersburg. 1944Slavonic Rev. Oct. 1 Gumilyov's place as the acknowledged leader and master of a new literary school—‘Acmeism’—has not been evaluated as yet. 1949L. I. Strakhovsky Craftsmen of Word 2 ‘The year 1910 marks the crisis of Symbolism,’ wrote Alexander Blok. ‘In that year were manifested new movements, which adopted a hostile attitude both to Symbolism and to one another: Acmeism, Ego-Futurism, and the first beginnings of Futurism.’ 1961H. Muchnic From Gorky to Pasternak 10 This individualist attitude, variously manifested, not only in Symbolism itself but in its several offshoots—Acmeism, Futurism, Formalism, as well as in the entirely personal nightmares of such writers as Leonid Andreyev—was to clash most sharply with the dogma of Soviet art.
Also ˈAcmeist, a member or admirer of the Acmeist movement in poetry (usu. in pl.); also attrib. or as adj.
1922Slavonic Rev. I. 221 They called themselves Acmeists, and their poetry is a return to more concrete and realistic modes of expression. 1942G. Shelley Mod. Poets from Russia 9 Nikolai Gumilev was one of the founders of the Acmeist movement. 1949L. I. Strakhovsky Craftsmen of Word 2 Because the Acmeists set forth as their goal in poetry a chiseled verse, a precision of images, an exactness of epithets, detachment, a rational approach to creation, and, above all, craftsmanship and the proper use of the word in its exact and not its transitory meaning, they brought to Russian poetry a clarity and vigor which it had not known since the times of Pushkin. 1965C. Brown Prose of Osip Mandelstam 12 It was the mysticism of the Symbolists, their fascination with the occult and the other world, to which the Acmeists objected. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. I. i. ix. 336 The Acmeists and the Futurists..had drunk Oldenborger's pure cold water. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 988/3 Both in their textural thinness and their formal laxity, his poems are surely a long way from the Acmeist tradition to which Daniel Weissbort assigns them. |