Acmeism is a
short-lived but significant movement in early 20th-century
Russian poetry, aiming for precision and clarity in opposition to the alleged
vagueness of the preceding symbolist movement. Its leaders, Nikolai Gumilev
and Sergei Gorodetsky, founded an Acmeist 'Poets' Guild' in 1911, and
propounded its principles in the magazine Apollon.