Robert Charles Sands
{{Short description|American writer and poet}}
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Robert Charles Sands (May 11, 1799 – December 16, 1832) was an American writer and poet.
Biography
Robert Charles Sands was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 11, 1799, the son of Auditor-General Comfort Sands (1748–1834) and his second wife, Cornelia Lott Sands (1761-1856).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA352-IA4 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VIII |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=354–355 |year=1924 |access-date=2021-01-24 |via=Google Books}} He was a scholar and a writer of many literary types, but without much originality. His best work is considered to be in his short stories. His most well-known poem is Yamoyden which is an Indian story written in collaboration with a friend. He is considered part of the "Knickerbocker group", which also included Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Kirke Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Joseph Rodman Drake, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. {{ISBN|0-86576-008-X}}
He died in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 16, 1832.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68426267/obituary-of-robert-charles-sands/ |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Evening Post |page=2 |date=1832-12-17 |access-date=2021-01-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68426492/late-from-new-york/ |title=Late from New-York |newspaper=Charleston Daily Courier |page=2 |date=1832-12-24 |access-date=2021-01-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- George and Evert Duyckinck: [http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=35293 Robert Charles Sands], in: Cyclopedia of American Literature (1856), 2:371-373.
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Category:19th-century American poets