A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman is one of the best-loved books of poems in English, but even now its author remains a shadowy figure. He maintained an iron reserve about himself - and with good reason. His emotional life was dominated by an unhappy and unrequited love for an Oxford friend. His passion went into his writing, but he could barely hint at its cause. Spoken and Unspoken Love discusses all Housman's poetry, especially the effect of an existence deprived of love, as seen in the posthumous work, where the story becomes clear in personal and deeply moving poems.

A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman is one of the best-loved books of poems in English, but even now its author remains a shadowy figure. He maintained an iron reserve about himself - and with good reason. His emotional life was dominated by an unhappy and unrequited love for an Oxford friend. His passion went into his writing, but he could barely hint at its cause. Spoken and Unspoken Love discusses all Housman's poetry, especially the effect of an existence deprived of love, as seen in the posthumous work, where the story becomes clear in personal and deeply moving poems.

Automatically evaluating the aesthetic qualities of a photograph is a current challenge for artificial intelligence technologies, yet it is also an opportunity to open up new economic and social possibilities. Aesthetics in Digital Photography presents theories developed over the last 25 centuries by philosophers and art critics, who have sometimes been governed by the objectivity of perception, and other times, of course, by the subjectivity of human judgement. It explores the advances that have been made in neuro-aesthetics and their current limitations. In the field of photography, this book puts aesthetic hypotheses up against experimental verification, and then critically examines attempts to “scientifically� measure this beauty. Special attention is paid to artificial intelligence techniques, taking advantage of machine learning methods and large databases.

When Rupert Brooke died in the Aegean in 1915 on his way to Gallipoli, he was instantly canonised as the heroic soldier-poet and martyr to the cause of British honour, and his sonnet 'If I should die - ' became the emblem of patriotic youth. Ever since, he has been regarded as a war poet, but the impression is misleading. Working in the early 1900s when English poetry was in reaction to the 'decadent' 1890s, he was essentially a modernist who combined the open-air freshness and simplicity of the Georgians, most famously in 'Grantchester', with experimental explorations of the inner life which precede and parallel the early poems of T. S. Eliot. Like Eliot, he was a poet of ideas, with a special interest in the Elizabethans, Donne and John Webster, but he was also, and above all, a love poet reflecting on the emotional complexity of his own life. Rupert Brooke: Poetry, Love and War sets Rupert Brooke's best-known poems in the context of his life and loves, and an appendix adds a selection of further poems to illustrate the diversity of his contribution to English poetry.

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