Acmeist poetry

Acmeist poetry

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

The Acmeist mood was first announced by Mikhail Kuzmin in his 1910 essay "Concerning Beautiful Clarity". The Acmeists contrasted the ideal of Apollonian clarity (hence the name of their journal, Apollo) to "Dionysian frenzy" propagated by the Russian Symbolist poets like Bely and Vyacheslav Ivanov. To the Symbolists' preoccupation with "intimations through symbols" they preferred "direct expression through images".[1]

In his later manifesto "The Morning of Acmeism" (1913), Osip Mandelstam defined the movement as "a yearning for world culture". As a "neo-classical form of modernism" which essentialized "poetic craft and cultural continuity",[2] the Guild of Poets placed Alexander Pope, Théophile Gautier, Rudyard Kipling, Innokentiy Annensky, and the Parnassian poets among their predecessors.

Major poets in this school include Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Kuzmin, Anna Akhmatova, and 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.

References

  1. ^ Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker. Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry. Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0-415-16355-2. Page 8.
  2. ^ Michael Wachtel. The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-00493-4. Page 8.

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