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George Sandys was born on March 2, 1578 in Bishopsthorpe, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York.
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George Sandys was born on March 2, 1578 in Bishopsthorpe, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York.
He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, but took no degree.
After traveling in Italy, Turkey, and Egypt, Sandys went to America in 1621 in the company of the governor of the Virginia colony, Sir Francis Wyatt, who had married Sandys' niece. While acting there as treasurer of the Virginia colony he wrote at least part of his rather literal translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1621 - 1626). He returned to England after 1628 and joined the court of Charles I. In 1632 he translated the first book of the Aeneid into couplets. The Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David appeared in 1636 and two years later was reissued, with music by Henry Lawes, with other Biblical paraphrases. Recognized by many as the father of the heroic couplet, Sandys experimented with various couplet forms. A tragedy, Christ's Passion (1640), was based on a Latin version by Grotius. Sandys died at Boxley, Kent, on March 4, 1644.
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He was never married.