Dear colleagues,

Even if the Russian acmeism often has been considered an analogue  to 
imagism, this is not undisputed. Actually there was a more avantgarde (but 
 poetically less significant)  movement in Russia just after the 
revolution which called itself Imagism or "Imaginism" with Vadim 
Shershenevich as the leader and Sergei Esenin as its most prominent (but 
rather untypical) representative.

See Anna Lawtons informative article on Imaginism -> Imagism in Victor 
Terras (ed.), Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale U. P. 1985 (with a good 
bibliography up to the 1980's; Nils Åke Nilsson specifically discusses the 
relation between Anglo-American Imagism and "Imaginism" in his little book 
from 1970). Vladimir Markovs "Russian Imagism 1919-1924" (1980)  is 
probably, in spite of the title, in Russian (a translation is said to be 
forthcoming).

Elaine >Rusinko should have a recent article about the relation between 
Acemism and Anglo-American Imagism (write to: [log in to unmask])

If you find Anna Lawton somewhere on the Internet she might give you an 
updated bibliography on the subject.

All the best,

Lars Kleberg






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Bill Pratt wrote:
Yes, Soviet Imagism was called Acmeism.   The main poets  were Gumilyov,
Akhmatova, and Mandelstamm--all distinguished names.   Bill Pratt
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Thank you

Rick Seddon