News about John Donne

It was 1932, it was Edinburgh, and young Sammy from Raasay - barely 20, an earnest university student - had notions to be a poet. But his early, stilted efforts in English - self-consciously in the style of John Donne - sat lifelessly on the page. Then an image came to him. A pale yellow moon on the skyline; a demure heron standing on top of seawrack.

A year on from being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, my children told me I must plan my funeral. I remembered how grateful I was to my beloved late husband, Desmond Wilcox (pictured together left), who planned his memorial service down to the last detail. Like him, I decided I'd like my service to contain music and readings I love, not all gloomy, plenty of laughter. But how to choose?

White van drivers are 'insight poets' who are experiencing their inner life while following in the footsteps of John Donne (inset) and T.S.Eliot. George Mpanga (left), also known as George the Poet, has written a poetry anthology by van drivers to debunk the myth, as they are often associated with macho selfishness. Two hundred van drivers (some on the bottom) submitted their poems to Mr Mpanga's Poetry in Motion competition, which was displayed in their poems.

When he set out to make "Oppenheimer," director Christopher Nolan decided not to use CGI for the film's central nuclear explosion. Nolan told IGN on July 18: "It's impossible to make CG threatening." "I first showed the script to Andrew Jackson, my visual effects supervisor, and said, I don't think that device will work for us." So let's see if we can achieve all of these effects using analog techniques from Oppenheimer's first thoughts of the quantum world, atoms, and how they'd be interacting with a lot of energy between them. Waves, particles, and the duality of that." Eventually, to display the size and extent of 1945's Trinity test, the first time a nuclear weapon had been detonated, he went the opposite route: building a working bomb. The Trinity test took place in Los Alamos, the New Mexico town where J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy in the film) and the US government banded together to fund the Manhattan Project, a national effort to build a nuclear weapon. The Los Angeles team detonated an atomic bomb in the heart of the Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, for the first time in history.

"Oppenheimer," a biographical drama that follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of history's most influential scientists, who is often described as the father of the atomic bomb. The film is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's nonfiction book "American Prosecutors," which delves into Oppenheimer's personal life, work, and an uninhibited legacy. Here's what you need to hear about the man behind the scenes ahead of 2023's most unlikely double feature. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who worked mainly in the 1930s and 1940s, specialized in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. He studied at Harvard, Cambridge, and Göttingen University, where he honed his scientific work in the 1920s. Früher studies included publishing with his mentor, Max Bornheimer, on what came to be called the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, a quantitative difference between nuclear motion and electronic motion in molecules, which is still one of molecular dynamics' keystones.

KATE MANSEY: When King Charles travels to Europe at the end of March, it will not be the first time he has detoured into the Brexit controversy. In 2020, Charles and Camilla travelled to Germany, where the then Prince of Wales gave an eloquent speech about the 'enduring links' between the two countries. It came four years after Britons voted to leave the EU, but in some quarters, it was seen as a token of Charles' continuing love for the bloc: a hint, perhaps, that if he had been allowed to vote rather than a Brexiteer.

According to Rundell, the poet, soldier, scholar, and clergyman John Donne's life revolved around'sex, death, and God.' Donne was born a Catholic at a time when it was a risky thing to be; his brother was arrested and tortured for his faith. Donne, as a young man, was something of a dandy and keenly interested in sex. Rundell believes he'll be the author of some of 'the most elaborately sexed poetry ever written', with lines such as: "Licence my roving hands, and let them go/Before, behind, between, above, below."

Buckingham Palace has now released the order of service in full, as well as the official picture of the Queen's funeral, the list of hymns, readings, and music. 2,000 people attended the royal family and world leaders' funeral today, as the country mourns the Monarch's death. The Queen's coffin will be carried in a grand military parade from Westminster's Palace to Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. for the funeral.

As the eyes of the world look toward central London, the two young siblings, who are second and third in line to the throne, will march in today's parade with the likes of King Charles and Prince Harry. Last night, it was announced that the Prince and Princess of Wales will bring George, nine, and Charlotte, seven, according to reports, it was a 'collective family decision' to make them the youngest to play a central role in such a dramatic event.

Every minute for 96 minutes, the tenor bell is tolled during the service, commemorating each year of Queen Elizabeth II's life. The coffin of Her Majesty's throne enters the Abbey, surmounted by the Imperial State Crown and the Orb and Sceptre, Earl of Wessex, Prince of Wales, Prince Charlotte, Prince George, Prince George, Prince Michael of Kent, Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince George and Prince George were among the bearer