Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky (; – June 8, 1967) was a Russian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

. He was one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilev) of "Guild of Poets" (). He was born in

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, and died in

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. Gorodetsky entered the literary scene as a

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, developing friendships with

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Valery Briusov. Following his brief stint with Symbolists, Gorodetsky began to associate with younger poets, forming the

Acmeist Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a modernist transient poetic school, which emerged or in 1912 in Russia under the leadership of Nikolay Gumilev and Sergei Gorodetsky. Their ideals were compactness of form and clarity of expression. The term ...

group with Nikolai Gumilev,

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; , . ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova,. ...

, and Osip Mandelshtam. Subsequently, abandoning yet another group, he welcomed the

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as a Soviet poet.

References

External links

English translations of 2 poems by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, 1921

The Poems
by Sergey Gorodetsky (English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorodetsky, Sergey Male poets from the Russian Empire Soviet poets 1884 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian poets