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Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a transient poetic school, which emerged or in 1912 in Russia under the leadership of and Sergei Gorodetsky. Their ideals were compactness of form and clarity of expression.Poem for the Day, Two, The Nicholas Albery Foundation, Chatto and Windus, London The term was coined after the Greek word ( akmē), i.e., "the best age of man".

The acmeist mood was first announced by in his 1910 essay "Concerning Beautiful Clarity". The acmeists contrasted the ideal of clarity (hence the name of their journal, Apollon) to " frenzy" propagated by the Russian symbolist poets like and Vyacheslav Ivanov. To the Symbolists' preoccupation with "intimations through symbols" they preferred "direct expression through images".

(2025). 9780415163552, Routledge. .

In his later manifesto "The Morning of Acmeism" (1913), defined the movement as "a yearning for ". As a " form of ", which essentialized "poetic craft and cultural continuity", the Guild of Poets placed , Théophile Gautier, , Innokentiy Annensky, and the among their predecessors.

(2025). 9780521004930, Cambridge University Press. .

Major poets in this school include , , , , and . The group originally met in The Stray Dog Cafe, St. Petersburg, then a celebrated meeting place for artists and writers. Mandelstam's collection of poems Stone (1912) is considered the movement's finest accomplishment.

Amongst the major acmeist poets, each interpreted acmeism in a different stylistic light, from Akhmatova's intimate poems on topics of love and relationships to Gumilev's narrative verse.


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