| By contrast, the Acmeists demanded a return to clarity, specificity, the concrete. |
| The leading Acmeists were Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. |
| Six poets Gumilyov, Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Sergey Gorodetsky, Vladimir Narbut and Mikhail Zenkevich joined forces, calling themselves the Acmeists. |
| Because the Acmeists broke with exhausted conventions and vague mysticism, Mandelstam is sometimes mistaken for a chilly realist. |
| Formed as a reaction to the Symbolist movement, the Acmeists, as they became known, called for a return to the use of clear, precise and concrete imagery. |
| Being a well-read person, he has also been influenced by Acmeists, Imagists and Spanish Modernists. |
