acmeism

acmeism
/ak"mee iz'euhm/, n.
a school of early 20th-century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.
[ < Russ akmeízm, equiv. to Gk akmé ACME + Russ -izm -ISM]

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