acmeist

comparative more acmeist · superlative most acmeist

1. Alternative letter-case form of Acmeist.

plural acmeists

1. Alternative letter-case form of Acmeist.

comparative more Acmeist · superlative most Acmeist · alternative acmeist

1. Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.

   He was Acmeist in spades.

   1973, Clarence Brown, Mandelstam, Cambridge University Press, published 1978, →ISBN, page 185

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   As such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist.

   1995, Justin Doherty, The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the Word, Clarendon Press, page 192

   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.

   2006, Kirsten Blythe Painter, Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 86

plural Acmeists · alternative acmeist

1. An Acmeist poet, a member of the Acmeist school.

   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.

   1993 July 11, Jodi Daynard, “In Short: Nonfiction”, in The New York Times, →ISSN