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Edward John Stevens
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Discovering Wild Plant Names
Many wild plant names originate from early Greek, Latin or Old English and through the ages their original meanings have become misunderstood. This book aims to bring order to the confusion of botanical classification by tracing the origins of both the English names and the scientific names of the common species of plants and trees in Britain.
John Stevens
Excerpt from John Stevens: An American Record Every pioneer is, by definition, the first in his field, the breaker of fresh ground, and the sower of seed. Usually, his energies are confined to one chosen field and rarely does he live to see it come to fruit. John Stevens worked in a dozen fields, not always reaching the end of the furrow but almost unfailingly foreseeing that end. Moreover, just a century ago, when he was eighty, he saw his two brightest dreams come true. The Stevens steamboats were then the fastest in this country and the great era of American railroad building was at last fairly begun. It detracts nothing from his farsightedness that it should have required this additional...
Shakespeare in Music
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Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court
While the music of the Elizabethans is widely known, that of the early Tudors is still mostly unpublished. Dr. Stevens provides a scholarly study of this un-accountably neglected subject, and gives the first full description of three song-books which contain virtually all that remains of English secular song from 1480-1530. Beginning with a detailed description of the song-books, he goes on to discuss the relationship between music and poetry during the period before the Reformation. This is followed by a description of the tradition of the 'courtly makers' from Chaucer to Wyatt, including an important section on the social manifestations of courtly love, and he deals thoroughly with the rol...
Scribe
A profusely illustrated, full-color retrospective of John Stevens' work with letterforms. Includes calligraphy and lettering -- artworks, personal work, experimental work, commissioned work -- as well as graphic work and type design. His body of work spans paper to stone, books to walls, to type and the digital realm. In the text, John presents his approach to a design or work and his thoughts on letterforms, and continues with a discussion on tools, teaching, design and writing in general. Using his body of work as example, he makes the case that barriers between fine arts and graphic arts are mostly irrelevant. A must have for calligraphers, lettering artists, typographers, type designers – anyone who love letters.
