Pelayo
A Story of the Goth
William Gilmore Simms
introduction by W. Matthew J. Simmons
Paperback
978-1-61117-574-5
Published: Feb 26 2016
The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of
William Gilmore Simms made one of the more curious decisions of his literary career by reworking a piece of verse-drama juvenilia into the novel Pelayo: A Story of the Goth, published in two volumes in 1838. In writing Pelayo, Simms left the romantic epics of America's history and frontier on which his reputation had been built for a tale of medieval Spain and the beginnings of the Reconquista.