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'Alien Hieroglyphs of Eternity' and 'Cold Pastorals': Allen Ginsberg's 'Siesta in Xbalba' and John Keats's Great Odes

par Bellarsi, Franca
Référence Comparative American studies, 11, 3, page (243-264)
Publication Publié, 2013-06

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Examining the poetry of Allen Ginsberg in the light of that of John Keats, the possible connections between 'Siesta in Xbalba' - a long poem by Ginsberg that received much more critical attention in the eighties than today - and Keats's so-called Great Odes are investigated. 'Siesta' is here read as a composite mainly recycling 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'Ode to a Nightingale', whose themes and motifs Ginsberg both preserves and subverts. This is the first attempt to conflate 'Siesta' with Keats's Great Odes. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2013.