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John Donne

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noun

  1. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)

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John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Charles Cotton, John Pym, and John Hales were Englishmen, scholars, statesmen, and authors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643
According to this version, the well read Oppenheimer based the name Trinity on the fourteenth Holy Sonnet by John Donne, a 16th century English poet and sermon writer.
National Atomic Museum (U.S.)Trinity SiteProject Gutenberg ebook #277
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“Not Gibbon; no; d’you happen to have Modern Love or John Donne? You see, I contemplate pauses when people get tired of looking at the view, and then it would be nice to read something rather difficult aloud.”
Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutProject Gutenberg ebook #144