Acmeist

acmeist English Alternative forms en acmeist Pronunciation ăkʹ-mē-ĭst, en /ˈæk.mi.ɪst/ en ækmiɪst 3 Adjective Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s. en 1973 Clarence Brown Mandelstam http://books.google.com/books?id=Lg84AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185&dq=Acmeist 185 Cambridge University Press 1978 978-0-521-29347-1 He was Acmeist in spades. en 1995 Justin Doherty The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the Word http://books.google.com/books?id=4Ot9AAAAIAAJ 192 Clarendon Press As such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist. en 2006 Kirsten Blythe Painter Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-5075-2 http://books.google.com/books?id=zWO24ZV1PNkC&pg=PA86&dq=Acmeist 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. Translations pertaining to Acmeism Polish: pl akmeistyczny Portuguese: pt acmeísta Noun An Acmeist poet, a member of the Acmeist school. en Jodi Daynard In Short: Nonfiction The New York Times 1993-07-11 https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/books/in-short-nonfiction.html 0362-4331 The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, who died in 1966 at the age of 77, belongs to the latter category. One of the leading poets of her era, she was a member of the Acmeists, a group of poets who sought—unlike the mystical Symbolists who preceded them—to write about the tangible world. https://web.archive.org/web/20240422133456/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/books/in-short-nonfiction.html 22 April 2024 Translations a poet member of the Acmeist school Polish: pl akmeista m, pl akmeistka f Portuguese: pt acmeísta m f Further reading Acmeist poetry Anagrams en aceimst acmites camsite sematic etacism meticas