Acmeism, in terms of poetry, was a school which emerged in the early
1900s in
Russia. Major poets in this school include
Osip Mandelstam,
Anna Akhmatova,
Sergei Gorodetsky[?] and
Nikolai Gumilyev[?]. It is both confessional and fundamentally modernist in its general tone and tenor. The group met originally in
The Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg[?], then a celebrated meeting place for artists and writers.
- NB (need to deal with Narbut inter al)