The deficit would be equal to 3.7 percent of GDP in 2029 and 6.5 percent of GDP by 2039, a higher deficit than any year between 1947 and 2008. This chart from the Congressional Budget Office shows how the deficit is not expected to continue its downward trend in recent years.
Literary critic and poet Samuel Johnson first coined the term 'metaphysical poetry' in his book Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1179-1781) .
Metafiction is primarily associated with Modernist literature and Postmodernist literature, but is found at least as early as Homer 's Odyssey, Chaucer 's 14th century Canterbury Tales, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1756).ervantes ' Don Quixote, published in the 17th century, is a metafictional novel and so is James Hogg 's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner published in 1824. Russian author Nikolai Gogol implements a limited, self-referencing narrator in his novel, Dead Souls published in 1842.