The concept of 18th-century New England as optimistic rationalism emerges the dominant view life. According to this view, God and nature are benevolent man all part harmonious, cosmic progress is imitable by man, society perfectible. These were views people who led American Revolution created its new form government. After revolution, went through a period intellectual decline, happened mainly ...

Abstract Through professional social media accounts, poets can become actors in the ecosystem of Social Media Entertainment (SME). In this article, using an ecological perspective, accounts five are treated as exhibits processes they take part in, both platform-specific practices related to content creation SME, and showing interlocking overlapping SME with other ecosystems cultural production....

pattern which the poet has created or adopted, perhaps only in part consciously. The poet uses this pattern as a basis of selection so that he may choose out of the infinite number of sentences of natural language those which qualify for inclusion in the poem. In the verse of interest here the pattern consists in the regulation of two linguistically given properties, the number of syllables in ...