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1. An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favour of Imagist clarity and texture.
   "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."

Type of: art movement, artistic movement

Encyclopedia: Acmeism