Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection
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The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937), Robert Graves (1895-1985), James Joyce (1882-1941), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), as well as writers who produced work following WWII, such as Aidan Higgins (1927-2015), identified as late modernists or influenced by modernism.
Intellectuals and artists affiliated with parallel movements in other disciplines during the same period, such as modern art, are also found in this collection, as seen in the correspondence of Herbert Read (1893-1968) and photography of Gisèle Freund (1908-2000).
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Collection Details
- Items 3049
- Last Updated 2024-07-31
Subcollections (15)
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Works (3033)
1121. Sat. Ap 3.
- Title:
- Sat. Ap 3.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-03
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-776
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-03.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat. Ap 3. Laura had a bad night: nerves upset her disgestion digestion . She stayed in bed & I stayed in. This morning she reported word for word two nonsense stories she had told me late at night when I was looking after her, & a poem. He, she, who – Who weeps last Laughs last. It tried to be a lot of islands And then pretended to talk Trojan. Saying “Myrga por ora”. I said: "Do not talk nonsense. You are just pretending to talk Trojan." Then it said “Myrga pee.” (The best was: ) "Would you like to hear a story : There were all the old maypoles, One for every year. I could not see a new one for this year. Then from the left came two tall people Dancing in among. Why two tall people? No, not two tall people but one whole person Dancing in among. And this is why they did not notice That there was no maypole For the new year." She stayed in bed all day. No work. Seventy hands of 66 at night. Watt has fixed Lawrence book in United States
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1122. Sunday Ap 4.
- Title:
- Sunday Ap 4.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-04
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-777
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-04.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday Ap 4. Laura wrote a letter to the Telegraph about the Dark Ages.* Schools again. I wrote a letter to Winston Churchill enclosing a Heraldo de Madrid protesting against an article of his (in the Neuer Zurichner Zeitung ) about Trotskyites in Spain. Am taking perloids again: the boil, still there, seems slightly better : . Schw & Str. told us of a thing at Deyá after we left – Leman & Pepe, afraid of being bombarded lived in a hill-cave with blankets, champagne, tinned food & a gramophone. * Did not appear: perhaps because she mentioned Hadow unfavourably who was then ill and died a few days later.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1123. Monday Ap 5
- Title:
- Monday Ap 5
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-05
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-778
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-05.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Ap 5 A letter from Jenny very happy at Cannes – she preferred a week of luxury there to three dull weeks on a cruise & has had battles of flowers and things. Needs money. We hope to be back in Deyá in three months – but intend to return to England on June 10th. Enthusiastic review of Tr.Ending in Manchester Guardian by old Wilfred Gibson. We have settled into a routine of late mornings, Libera Estampa for me at the kiosk at eleven, lunch at 1, post at 4, Lugano (Olimpia or Gambrinus) until 6. Supper at 7 (I cooking, Karl laying.) then 66 till someone reaches 10. Intervals are all work & up to 12 at night. Schools & several letters each. All the local camellias & flowering shrubs in bloom.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1124. Tuesday Ap 6
- Title:
- Tuesday Ap 6
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-06
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-779
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-06.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Tuesday Ap 6 Schools all day: and trying to recover a poem originally called Moments in Never that I lost with all my other fair copies in London. Remembered 2 verses & 2 lines out of 3 verses. Report of presence of 80,000 expeditionary force in the Balearics (L'Oeuvre) but cannot believe that there is as much. At 66 four attempts at a taylor running – I lost 2, made one, Karl lost one.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1125. Wed Ap 7
- Title:
- Wed Ap 7
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-07
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-780
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-07.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Wed Ap 7 Schools all day. A letter from Short (uncensored[)] enclosing one from Juan to Anita telling her of G's imprisonment and begging her to keep calm, for Gelat's case was in good hands & nothing further had happened. The accusations were: – The water, the road, his being mayor. Letters. Great depression, fine weather.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1126. Thursday Ap 8
- Title:
- Thursday Ap 8
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-08
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-781
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-08.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Thursday Ap 8 Schools. An amende honourable by Louis MacNeice in a Spectator review of Troy . Dirt by one Shawn Taylor in New Statesman . In the afternoon a walk beyond Gentillino to Montagnola in hot sun: villas some good some bad mixed views, lots of flowers. Tried to work out a poem on the way, but no good. Another draft of A Wounded Man . Checked some of Laura's Collected Poems. It occurred to me The Fox did not eat the sour grapes; so his children's teeth were not set on edge.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1127. Friday Ap 9
- Title:
- Friday Ap 9
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-09
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-782
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-09.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Friday Ap 9 Went on high hill above Paradiso (San Salvatore) picked flowers, a green Christmas rose, a flower between a harebell & a buttercup, bilberry flowers. My boil suddenly better, not quite gone, but better. Jokes about Laura's college-girl dress. Schools . Anita writes that Juan of the Moli who went to Majorca to explain about his illicit trade in oranges is in prison – did we denounce him? Basler Spezial beer & kidneys at Gambrinus.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1128. Sat Ap 10th
- Title:
- Sat Ap 10th
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-10
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-783
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-10.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat Ap 10th Schools . Got money from Lugano: paid Poggi for month (266 francs = £13.odd) Draft of a poem about a hotel bedroom. Laura going over Norman's Rimbaud. Margaret Russell sent Laura a yellow & pink knitted shawl. News that Merle Oberon is out of nursing home & that Korda is likely to finish the film later in the year. Miaja's counter-offensive at Madrid. Laura's letter about Kierkegaarde in T.L.S
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1129. Sunday Ap 11
- Title:
- Sunday Ap 11
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-11
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-784
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-11.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday Ap 11 Schools Three more drafts of Hotel Bedroom . Ziebert as usual: full. Nickel gone, Schw & Str. alone. A lot of nonsense about Str going to rescue Schw. 'Egyptian head' which is quite safe enough in the gardener's possession. Worked on Schools until 2 am. Boil much better. General confidence about Spain. Financial News praises the Government's financial honesty. (March 25 reported in a Heraldo de Madrid of 5 April)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1130. Monday. Ap 12
- Title:
- Monday. Ap 12
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-12
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-785
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-12.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday. Ap 12 Pathetic letter from Rennes. Apparently Juan del Moli is in prison. Nancy writes that Jenny is STUPID and that she is still at Cannes, and refused David's offer to camp with her in France. 5 further drafts of A Wounded Man . Wrote to Nancy. Schools . Laura gave Karl & me the task of buying things for 20 francs including supper. We got a pack of English cards, lobster salad in scallops, mixed pickles, & an old silver buckle, scoring book & pencil for 66, & an early Wodehouse “The Little Nugget” which we started reading aloud. Began homily on Tolerance .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.