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The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning / Cambridge Edition

Chapter 147: ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY
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This single-volume collection gathers the poet's lyrical and dramatic output across his career, bringing together short lyrics, dramatic monologues, longer narrative sequences and plays. The poems present varied voices and perspectives, experimenting with psychological portraiture, dramatic speech, moral ambiguity, and philosophical reflection, shifting between intimate lyric moments and extended narrative argument. The edition arranges works chronologically and provides a concise biographical sketch, brief head-notes on origins, selected explanatory notes, an appendix with prose pieces and critical material, and indexes of titles and first lines to assist reading and study.


ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY

INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES, BEING

THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION


οὐκ ἔσθω κενέβρει'· ὁπόταν δὲ θύῃς τι, κάλει με.

"I eat no carrion; when you sacrifice
Some cleanly creature—call me for a slice!"