Acmeist poetry
Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a
The term was coined after the Greek word άκμη (ákmē), i.e., "the best age of man".The acmeist mood was first announced by
Russian symbolist poets like Bely and Vyacheslav Ivanov. To the Symbolists' preoccupation with "intimations through symbols" they preferred "direct expression through images".[6]
In his later manifesto "The Morning of Acmeism" (1913),
Parnassian poets among their predecessors.[7]
Major poets in this school include
Georgiy Ivanov. 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.[8]
See also
References
- ISBN 9780191783234.
- ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
- ^ ISBN 0-87779-042-6.
- ISBN 0-7011-7401-3
- ISBN 0-631-20271-4.
- ISBN 0-415-16355-2.
- ISBN 0-521-00493-4.
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "poets.org". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2014-04-06. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
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