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acmeism

[ ak-mee-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. a school of early 20th-century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of acmeism1

< Russian 쳾í, equivalent to Greek 쳾ḗ acme + Russian -izm -ism
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When asked to define Acmeism, the school of formal, rigorously clear poets to which he belonged, he replied that it was "a nostalgia for world culture."

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