Merrill's imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets. James Merrill and W.H. Rhymester the best of rhymester raritan. Auden offers a substantial analysis of the literary and personal relationship between two major twentieth-century poets. Combining archival research, textual analysis, and aspects of queer theory, James Merrill and W.H. As Gwiazda argues, Auden's prominence in the post-World War II American poetry scene as a homosexual poet and critic makes his impact on Merrill particularly noteworthy.

1. Black Sabbath Album Covers

Black Sabbath Album Covers

Many fans in ’s 46-year career have heard a set open with 1970’s eponymous track: an ominous dirge, using a jarring three-tone gap between notes that musicians call “the devils interval”.Deftones, who played Download Festival’s newly renamed Lemmy Stage before the headliners, even tipped their hat to the song. And 100,000 fans at Donington Park defied biblical rain and the primordial soup it made of the ground to hear it played here one last time.How appropriate, considering Sabbath are the primordial soup of heavy metal. Forming in the late Sixties on the Birmingham blues circuit, they created a darker, more industrial sound than the rock at the time.Tony Iommi’s guitar – unflashy and full of menace – found a perfect complement in Terry “Geezer” Butler’s Hammer Horror meets protest song lyrics and ’s unremarkable yet unmistakable wail. Here they focused on their early years, specifically 1971’s seminal album Paranoid.And as they played classics such as War Pigs, Fairies Wear Boots, Hand of Doom and Snowblind, steam rose from the mosh pit in the middle of the crowd. Metal is the most forgiving musical style for aging stars: the more grizzled and battle worn they get, the more they suit the music.