The Emory site, whose URL Jonathan Morse provided,
is well worth a visit. But they've linked the wrong painting with
Williams's poem The Kermess. The one they want, I'm certain, is the
painting known as The Wedding Dance, 1566 (Detroit Institute of Art) not The
Peasant Dance, 1568 ( Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). The latter
painting features drunkenness, an incipient brawl, and prominent weapons,
whereas the former shows the dancers going round and round (see how Williams
uses enjambment to imitate this movement) and three unabashedly priapic
fellows.
Tim Romano
And while we're on the topic of Williams: Emory University's
English
department has a very nice FTP directory of modern poems about
paintings,
illustrated with the paintings. ...