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This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic endings. 

In one of the more well-known moments from Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne laments his capacity for moral self-sabotage: It is the corruption that I fear within me, not the contagion of commerce without me. 'Tis that unruly regiment within me, that will destroy me, 'tis I that doe infect my selfe, the man without a Navell yet lives in me; I feele that original canker corrode and devour me. Browne has been taken here to assert the doctrine of original sin, as he surely does, especially with the phrase that original canker. Browne's colorful way of referring to Adam brings out this tension, since it stresses Adam's independence from other humans. In Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne defends at length the view that Adam had no navel-otherwise we would be required to believe \"that in the first and most accomplished peece, the Creator affected superfluities-except metaphorically: All the Navell therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker.

This essay offers a new reading of the famous sequence in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions wherein John Donne hears bells tolling for an anonymous neighbor. Donne effectively doubles himself, I argue, so that we can simultaneously observe his charity as the dying and his charity toward the dying. In the process, Donne also engages with the controversy over prayer for the dead, artfully satisfying the competing demands of charitably thinking well of the dead already and of charitably interceding on their behalf.

According to Katrin Ettenhuber's excellent recent study of Donne's Augustine, Donne the preacher regularly turned to \"Augustine's various expositions of Genesis\" (28). [...]even in a poem in which Donne surrenders his entire life to God, he cannot separate it from the lives of others.

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (1610-11) and John Marston's The Fawn (1604-06) explore the father-son agon as intensified by the prospect of a next generation. Having begotten heirs, fathers find that this act of self-copying will be undermined if these heirs marry badly or not at all. Shakespeare and Marston stage paternal efforts to control children's sexual maturation and thereby to \"sire\" grandchildren. The Winter's Tale, however, also stages a way for fathers and sons to accept the passing of time and to alleviate their rivalry: by seeing in the succession of generations the succession of selves comprising their own story.

Most companies specifically require disclosure of such arrangements in respect of proxy access candidates, and a meaningful minority prohibits individuals who have such compensation arrangements from being proxy access candidates.4 New NASDAQ Rule NASDAQ has added a new provision to Rule 5250 that requires companies to disclose either on their Web site5 or in their proxy or information statement for the election of directors (or in their annual report on Form 10-K or Form 20-F if they do not file a proxy or information statement), all agreements or arrangements between any director or nominee and any person other than the company that provide for \"compensation or other payment in connection with such person's candidacy or service as a director of the Company.\" The disclosure obligation under the rule is on an annual basis until the earlier of the resignation of the director or one year following the termination of the agreement or arrangement, with no need for interim disclosure of changes in arrangements. Because it is an ongoing annual obligation, a one-time disclosure, for example, pursuant to Item 5.02 of Form 8-K or in connection with a proxy solicitation, would meet the listed company's obligation under the rule in the year it was disclosed but would not suffice for future annual periods.

Most companies specifically require disclosure of such arrangements in respect of proxy access candidates, and a meaningful minority prohibits individuals who have such compensation arrangements from being proxy access candidates.4 New Nasdaq Rule Nasdaq has added a new provision to Rule 5250 that requires companies to disclose either on their website5 or in their proxy or information statement for the election of directors (or in their annual report on Form 10-K or Form 20-F if they do not file a proxy or information statement), all agreements or arrangements between any director or nominee and any person other than the company that provide for \"compensation or other payment in connection with such person's candidacy or service as a director of the Company.\" The disclosure obligation under the rule is on an annual basis until the earlier of the resignation of the director or one year following the termination of the agreement or arrangement, with no need for interim disclosure of changes in arrangements. Because it is an ongoing annual obligation, a one-time disclosure, for example pursuant to Item 5.02 of Form 8-K or in connection with a proxy solicitation, would meet the listed company's obligation under the rule in the year it was disclosed but would not suffice for future annual periods.

The significant success of shareholder proxy access proposals this year is likely to result in even more shareholder proposals for proxy access in the 2016 proxy season. As of Aug 13, 2015, 82 shareholder proxy access proposals have come to a vote in 2015, and 48 have passed. In many cases, shareholder proposals were approved despite a preexisting bylaw (most often adopted after the receipt of the shareholder proposal) or a conflicting proposal by the company with modestly more restrictive terms. The average vote in favor of all proposals was 54.4%, and Institutional Shareholder Services recommended for all shareholder proxy access proposals. This article summarizes developments in the area of proxy access, including an analysis of the record of company responses to shareholder proxy access proposals received during 2015. Those companies that receive a proxy access shareholder proposal or that are evaluating preemptive adoption of a proxy access provision will want to consider the appropriate terms and requirements.

[...]the rosary skips over the public ministry entirely, moving from the boy's appearance at the temple to the adult's embrace of the cross. According to Erasmus, the story exemplifies preference for the sacred over the familial-a mark of maturity: \"Then as he grows up in us, he teaches us to transfer our natural feelings for our parents and friends to God ... [...]the dramatic weight falls firmly on Cordelia's forgiveness of Lear. In keeping with the poem's intricate verse form, the sonnets share a line-enabling Donne to create a causal relationship between the two mysteries. [...]Temple\" takes the boy's astonishing wisdom as a sign that his mission is urgent: [Whence comes it] That all which was, and all which should be writ, A shallow seeming child, should deeply know?