Acmeismn.
/ˈakmɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈækmiˌɪzəm/ The poetic theory or movement of the Acmeists (see Acmeist n.).
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Lake poets1816
Lake school1816
Satanic school1821
Spasmodic School1832
imagism1912
Acmeism1913
Adamism1913
unanimism1931
ultraism1932
the Movement1954
Simultaneism1959
spatialism1964
1913 Independent (N.Y.) 11 Dec. 483/1 The acmeism of Goumilev and the Adamism of Gorodetsky.
1926 D. 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.
1944 Slavonic Rev. Oct. 1 Gumilyov's place as the acknowledged leader and master of a new literary school—‘Acmeism’—has not been evaluated as yet.
1961 H. 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.
1998 Britannica Online (Version 98.2) These and other early poems [by Tikhonov] show the influence of Acmeism in their use of concrete images, pictorial detail, and semantic precision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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