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)

“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)