Acmeism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Russian акмеи́зм (akmeízm), from Ancient Greek.
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Noun[edit]
Acmeism (uncountable)
- A literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, reacting against symbolism and concerned with greater immediacy in poetic language.
- 2013, Jonathan Stone, “Acmeism”, in Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 9:
- A manifestation of Russian modernism that comprised those who had “overcome” symbolism, acmeism represents a facet of 20th-century Russian literature without a direct predecessor in Europe.
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Translations[edit]
a literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia
Further reading[edit]
Acmeist poetry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
