Robert Charles Sands

Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person 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).<ref name=Cyclopaedia>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. Template:ISBN</ref>

He died in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 16, 1832.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

• George and Evert Duyckinck: Robert Charles Sands, in: Cyclopedia of American Literature (1856), 2:371-373.

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