Robert Charles Sands

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Robert Charles Sands (born May 11, 1799 in Flatbush , Kings County, New York , † December 17, 1832 in Hoboken (New Jersey) ) was an American writer and poet .

life and work

Robert Charles Sands was a son of the auditor General Comfort Sands (1748-1834). He acquired good knowledge of the classical languages ​​and mathematics at an early age and graduated from Columbia High School in 1815. During his college years he and his schoolmate James Wallis Eastburn had planned to publish two magazines, of which he edited the Academic Recreations for a year and to which he contributed prose and verse pieces. From 1816 he studied law with David B. Ogden, but without neglecting poetry.

With his romance The bridal of Vaumond , written in Byron's manner , Sands appeared publicly as a poet in 1817. He was one of the authors of The Neologist (1817) essay series in the Daily Advertiser and another entitled The Amphilogist (1819). With his friend Eastburn, he transcribed the Psalms of David in verse. He also began with Eastburn a heroic poem about the wars of the Indians against the colonists of New England from 1675 to 1676, which he completed after Eastburn's death in late 1819 and published in six cantos in 1820 under the title Yamoyden, a tale of the wars of King Philip . In the same year Sands became a lawyer and learned Italian, Spanish and Portuguese at the same time.

Sands has directed various magazines since 1823. So he started Atlantic Magazine in May 1824 , and when it was renamed New York Review , he edited it from 1825 to 1827 with William Cullen Bryant . Most recently, he published the New York commercial advertiser from 1827 until his death . He also wrote a historical note on the life of Hernán Cortés in 1828 to accompany a publication of Cortes' letters intended for the South American market. That is why Sands' biography of Cortes was translated into Spanish by Manuel Dominguez and only appeared in the author's own language in his collection of works after the author's death. In 1830 Sands published The life and correspondence of John Paul Jones and in 1832 in association with Bryant, Catharine Sedgwick a . a. Tales of the Glauber Spa , for which work he u. a. wrote the funny introduction. His last poem sang about the dead of 1832.

On December 17, 1832, in the midst of literary activity, Sands died of a stroke at the age of only 33 in Hoboken, where he had lived during the last years of his life. His collected works and his biography were published by his friend Gulian C. Verplanck as Writings in Prose and Verse, with a Memoir (2 volumes, New York 1834).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Sands, Robert Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Flatbush ( Kings County, New York )
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1832
Place of death Hoboken, New Jersey