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English / 1901-1920 

 

 

    W.H. Auden (York, 1907-1973): Danse Macabre by Auden

                                            The Dance of Death (excerpts)

 

 

 

    Ben Belitt (New York, 1911-2003): Dance pience

 

 

   John Berryman (Oklahoma, 1914-1972): King David dances

                                                          “At Henry’s bier...”

 

 

 

      Earle Birney (Calgary, Canada, 1904-1995): The bear on the Delhi road

 

Richard Buckle (Warcop, UK, 1916-2001): Pippa Passes

                                                  Telegram To The Poet and Critic Edwin Denby on his sixtieth birthday

                                                                Cod Piece or What you will

 

  João Cabral de Melo Neto (Recife, Brazil, 1920-1999): The Dancer by Joao

 

  Sydney Carter (Camden Town, London, UK, 1915-2004): Lord of the Dance

  John Collier (London, UK, 1901-1980): Isadora Duncan (The Modern Age)

 

 

Margaret Danner (Kentucky, 1915-1984): Dance of the Abakweta

 

 

   Donald Davidson (Massachussetts, 1917-2003): Pavane

 

 

 

   Robert Duncan (Oakland, 1919-1988): The Dance by Duncan

 

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Dawn

 

 

    William Empson (Yorkshire, 1906-1984): The beautiful train

 

  Paul Engle (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US, 1908-1991): DANCER: FOUR POEMS

 

 

      Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Warsaw, 1905-1953): Night Is Dancing

 

 

 

 

  Langston Hughes (Missouri, 1902-1967): Dream variation

                                                                                                                            African Dance From Africa

 

 

   Helene Johnson (Massachussetts, 1906-1995): Bottled: New York

 

 

 

    A.M. Klein (Ukraine, 1909-1972): Psalm XII

 

 

  James Kirkup (South Shields, UK, 1918-2009): Homage to Vaslav Nijinsky

 

 

 

 

     James Laughlin (Pennsylvania, 1914-1997): Martha Graham

 

 

 

    John Lehmann (Bourne End, 1907-1987): ON WITH THE DANCE

 

 

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Englewood, NJ, USA, 1906-2001): 

                                                                                                  Caprice

 

 

   Robert Lowel (Massachusetts, 1917-1977): Poet to ballerina

 

 

 

     Louis MacNeice (Belfast, 1907-1963): Les Sylphides

                                                                                                                     Night Club

 

 

 

   William Meredith (New York, 1919-2007): Dialogue at the ballet

 

 

 

 

 

    Kenneth Rexroth (Indiana, 1905-1982): Song for a Dancer

 

 

 

 

 

     Theodore Roethke (Michigan, 1908-1963): My papa’s waltz

                                                                                                                                                          The dance

 

 

Winfield Townley Scott (Massachussets, 1910-1968): Re-Run

 

   Jaroslav Seifert (Zizkov, Czech Republic, 1901-1986): Dance-Song

 

 

    Karl Shapiro (Baltimore, 1913-2000): Ballet Mécanique

 

 

 

     James Schevill (Berkeley, 1920-2009): Descartes Composes a Ballet

 

 

 

   Stevie Smith (U.K., 1902-1971): The dedicated dancing bull

                                                                                               The Dedicated Dancing Bull and the Water Maid

 

 

 

    Bernard Spencer (India, 1909-1963): Castanets

                                                                                             Egyptian dancer at Shubra

 

 

 

   Stephen Spender (England, 1909-1995): The swan

 

   William Stafford (Kansas, 1914-1993): At the Klamath Berry Festival

 

 

 

Terence Tiller (Truro, 1916-1987): Egyptian dancer

 

 

 

 

   Parker Tyler (New Orleans, 1904-1974): Nijinsky

 

 

 

 

    Peter Viereck (New York, 1916-2006): Graves are made to waltz on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
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