Acmeistn.adj.

1913 Independent (N.Y.) 11 Dec. 483/1 The acmeist is nearly related to what is known in France as the paroxyst and that his ideal is the assumption of as much culture as possible.

1922 Slavonic Rev. 1 221 They called themselves Acmeists, and their poetry is a return to more concrete and realistic modes of expression.

1949 L. 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.

1965 C. 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.

1990 New Yorker 16 July 80/3 The Skamandrites combined some qualities of the English Georgians and the Russian Acmeists.

2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) vii. i. 435 But in 1913 she joined Gumilev and Mandelstam in a new literary group, the Acmeists, who rejected the mysticism of the Symbolists.

1921 B. Deutsch & A. Yarmolinsky Mod. Russ. Poetry p. xvii This movement manifested itself in the Acmeist secession.

1933 G. Reavey Soviet Lit. 351 Gumilev was the head of the ‘Acmeist’ movement which, as against Symbolism, set up a criterion of simplicity, craft, and virility.

1976 Times 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.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 90/1 The lyrical persona created in her [sc. Akhmatova's] love poems..with cool Acmeist detachment.