Pelayo.
Author’s Corrected Copy
Beach, Elizabeth T. Porter. Pelayo: An Epic Of The Olden Moorish Time. New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1864).
8vo.; violet; marbled cloth; stamped in gilt; a.e.g.; hinges tender.
First edition. Beach’s corrected copy, with her autograph corrections and a note on title page: Typographical and other errors herein corrected by E.T.P. Beach.
This romantic verse of the exploits of Don Roderick—“the last king of the Visi-Goths”—written in Popean rhyming couplets, was the only book Beach published. Two years before Pelayo, however, she wrote the lyrics to a song commemorating the exploits of the frigate Cumberland during the battle of Hampton Roads. Her song—“The Last Broadside”—was called “the best lyric our War has produced” by William Cullen Bryant.
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