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Acmeism

Noun CEFR B1
ˈæk.miː.ɪz.əm

Definitions

A literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, reacting against symbolism and concerned with greater immediacy in poetic language.

uncountable

Equivalents

Portuguêsacmeísmo
Русскийакмеизм
2 more languages
Polskiakmeizm

Examples

“A manifestation of Russian modernism that comprised those who hadovercomesymbolism, acmeism represents a facet of 20th-century Russian literature without a direct predecessor in Europe.”

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