Author:Thomas Sprat

Thomas Sprat
(1635–1713)

Thomas Sprat

Works

• The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (1667)
• Observations on Sorbiere's Voyage into England, in a Letter to Mr. Wren (1668)
• The Rehearsal: as it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal (1672) (contributor to a work mainly by George Villiers)
• A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, Decemb. the 24th 1676 (1676)
• A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, His present Majesty, and the government (1685) - an account of the Rye House Plot
• An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley, written to Mr. M. Clifford in The works of Mr Abraham Cowley (1688)
• A relation of the wicked contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert Young against the lives of several persons by forging an association under their hands (1722)
• Sermons Preached on Several Occasions (1722)

Poetry

• To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (1659)
• To the Memory of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwel (1682)
• The Plague of Athens, which happened in the second year of the Peloponnesian War (1709)
• "To the Royal Society" in The History of the Royal Society of London

Works about Sprat

• "Thomas Sprat" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: with Critical Observations on their Works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 2, pp.260-268.
• "Sprat, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sprat, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sprat, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)