acmeist
Collocations
5ADJ.
central
VERB + ACMEIST
concern
ACMEIST + NOUN
spades, speaker
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
also, uniquely
Definitions
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Acmeist.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Acmeist.
adj
Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.
He was Acmeist in spades.
As such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist.
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4He was Acmeist in spades.
WiktionaryAs such, they reveal a central concern in Acmeist practice, but do not necessarily specify qualities which are uniquely Acmeist.
WiktionaryThe poem is also Acmeist in the speaker’s countering of his previous emotional abandon (“a thousand sorrows”) with his present moderation—a simple declaration of love instead of exhaustion and yearnin
WiktionaryThe Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, who died in 1966 at the age of 77, belongs to the latter category. One of the leading poets of her era, she was a member of the Acmeists, a group of poets who sought—u
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