Author: GUMILEV BLOK KUZMIN SOLOGUB MANDELSHTAM et al
Title: Tsekh' Poetov' I. [Poets' Guild Vol I in the Original Russian]
Description: Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1978. A good, clean, tight copy. Volume one only. Limited to 1000 copies. Used; Very Good Reprinted in facsimile from the original Berlin 1922 Efron edition. In 1910, Gumilev and Sergei Gorodetskii founded "Tsekh Poetov" from which group evolved the Acmeists. The name refers to the Greek word acme or "best of all ages." Mandelshtam defined their "neo-classical form of modernism" as "a yearning for world culture." They often gathered in The Stray Dog Café in St Petersburg and produced some of the most important Russian poetry of the 20th Century. Paperback.

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