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| | Journal Page 01a2 Article: Clark Ashton Smith's "Nero" |
 | | Clark Ashton Smith was born on January 13, 1893, in Long Valley, California, and died in California in August 1961, at the age of 68. |
 | | Smith has used the dramatic monologue and extended its reach beyond that of his poetic forbears, and the poem is a high achievement in that broadening. |
 | | Smith's contemporary, Edwin Arlington Robinson, also employed imaginary speakers, as in "The Man Against the Sky" (a poem useful for comparison with "Nero," but which is not as strongly developed, because of Robinson's zeal for ambiguity). |
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