SOURCE: “Chesterton as Satirist,” in The Chesterton Review, Vol. VI, No. Fall-Winter, 1979-80, pp. 233-53.
In the following essay, Dooley demonstrates how Chesterton used satire in his poetry and prose not simply as a gently humorous device, but also as a persuasive tool backed by moral substance.
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