Acmeist poetry

Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a poetic school which emerged in 1910 in Russia under leadership of Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky. The term was coined after the Greek word acme, i.e., "the best age of man".

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1910 - Russia - Nikolai Gumilyov - Sergei Gorodetsky - Acme

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Major poets in this school include Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, and Georgiy Ivanov. They placed Alexander Pope, Theophile Gautier, Rudyard Kipling, Innokentiy Annensky, and the Parnassian poets among their predecessors. The group met originally in The Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg, then a celebrated meeting place for artists and writers. Mandelshtam's collection of poems Stone (1912) is commonly regarded as the movement's finest monument.

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Anna Akhmatova - Mikhail Kuzmin - Osip Mandelshtam - Georgiy Ivanov - Alexander Pope - Theophile Gautier - Rudyard Kipling - Innokentiy Annensky - Parnassian poets - The Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg

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See Nikolay Gumilyov for detailed information about the group's ideals and aims.

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