Comic Poet

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“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)

“As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)