Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a poetic school which emerged in 1910 in Russia under leadership of Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky. The term was coined after the Greek word acme, i.e., "the best age of man". Jump to: navigation, search 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Nikolai Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (Russian: , April 15 NS 1886 - August 1921) was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sergei Gorodetsky (Russian: January 17 (January 5 (O.S.)), 1884— June 8, 1967) was a Russian poet, one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilyov) of Guild of Poets (Цех поэтов). Categories: Russian poets | 1884 births | 1967 deaths | Russian people stubs ... Acme (Greek ακμή, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something. ...

Major poets in this school include Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, and Georgiy Ivanov. They placed Alexander Pope, Theophile Gautier, Rudyard Kipling, Innokentiy Annensky, and the Parnassian poets among their predecessors. The group met originally in The Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg, then a celebrated meeting place for artists and writers. Mandelshtam's collection of poems Stone (1912) is commonly regarded as the movement's finest monument. Jump to: navigation, search Akhmatova in the 1920s Anna Akhmatova (Russian: , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style and also St. ... Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (Михаил Алексеевич Кузмин, 1872 - 1936) was a Russian reincarnation of Andre Gide. ... Jump to: navigation, search Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. ... Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 31, 1811 - October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist and literary critic. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rudyard Kipling, British author, Nobel Prize winner, today perceived by many as an outspoken racist Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. ... The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ...

See Nikolay Gumilyov for detailed information about the group's ideals and aims. Nikolai Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (Russian: , April 15 NS 1886 - August 1921) was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement. ...