'Alien Hieroglyphs of Eternity' and 'Cold Pastorals': Allen Ginsberg's 'Siesta in Xbalba' and John Keats's Great Odes. (1st September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bellarsi, Franca
• Is Part Of: Comparative American studies. Volume 11:Number 3(2013)
• Page Start: 243
• Page End: 364
• Publication Date: 2013-09-01
• Subjects: Allen Ginsberg -- John Keats -- 'Siesta in Xbalba' -- Great Odes -- Beat poetry -- English Romanticism; Nationalism -- United States -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; United States -- Civilization -- Periodicals; United States -- Relations -- Periodicals; 305.81305
• DOI: 10.1179/1477570013Z.00000000044
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-5700

Abstract

Abstract : 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.