text:  When I enquired of the young person how his countrymen preserved the memory of events which had happened since the death of the great Shakspeare he said there were other people as clever perhaps as Shakspeare who embalmed important incidents in immortal verse but whom a brutal public did not sufficiently appreciate; and he offered to read to me a poem of his own called the Napoleonad giving an account of a great war that happened some time ago--and which had been published he said week after week in the Bath and Bristol Literary Purveyor