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
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Works (3033)
1211. June 27 Sunday
- Title:
- June 27 Sunday
- 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:
- 1937-06-27
- 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-1-861
- 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_1937-06-27.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 27 Sunday Laura came at lunch time (I am practically on full diet) & we discussed the Alan-Beryl position. ( Apparently Beryl was rather rude to Laura last night: and Alan spoke coolly about her to me yesterday. Karl came in evening. Leman & Krasniks (via Strenge – Emerich) are back at Deyá. Finished Cook's Voyages & Beckford.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1212. June 28 Monday
- Title:
- June 28 Monday
- 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:
- 1937-06-28
- 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-1-862
- 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_1937-06-28.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 28 Monday First draft of a poem: no title yet. Laura in the morning: has had an operation without anaesthetic. Offer from Cassell for Belisarius & Lives of Wives . Brought me: “Still she wanted Company” by Margaret Irwin. Unconvincing 18th century. Alix came with cheese: & fruit from Laura. Then Sir Almroth Wright: with J.F. – Anti-feminisms An awful row: frightened him. Then Alan, soothing. Then Dr. Kande, who sat & talked for an hour.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1213. June 29 Tuesday
- Title:
- June 29 Tuesday
- 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:
- 1937-06-29
- 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-1-863
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-06-29.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 29 Tuesday Two more versions of poem: now called Mercies . Laura with an account of a meeting with Naomi Mitchison (hopeless) & of Len's meeting on Saturday with Korda (hopeless). The problem of cinema was emotional not visual: &, of directing, that of managing temperamental stars. Honor ate her lunch with me: her job has given her hitherto impossible entrees. Then Joyce with flowers. Ward & Dorothy with chicken-jelly, marbles from Caledonia, grapes. Lastly Liddell Hart with 2 books & a wish to meet Laura again. Reading 'Four Frightened People' by E. Arnot Robinson: a bad minded woman. Pannett said the wound was healing quickly: perhaps 10 days more. Breakdown of Non-Intervention pretence. ¿War?
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1214. June 30 Wednesday.
- Title:
- June 30 Wednesday.
- 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:
- 1937-06-30
- 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-1-864
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-06-30.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 30 Wednesday. Laura in morning: hopeless figures for Seizin accounts. Has seen Ewhurst house which she finds rather depressing, but in nice country. Ros came with flowers cornflowers. Read Lord Mahon's Belisarius . Alan came & we discussed the words of a poem of his about geography & people. I have long talks also with Dr Kandë. Thoughts of Sebastian & San Marsal. Clarissa: whom I haven't seen for 10 years or so.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1215. July 1 Thursday
- Title:
- July 1 Thursday
- 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:
- 1937-07-01
- 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-1-865
- 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_1937-07-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 1 Thursday Reading Belisarius , also Manzwaring & Dobrée's Floating Republic . Laura in morning: had lunched with Mother & explained things yesterday. Alan with custard & chicken breast from Laura: & news of Mrs Heine & Mrs Karl Marx. Jenny with pink & blue cornflowers & story of a blow from a fall which makes it advisable for her to leave work. Sally with tales of Charles' blackmail on Diana & her own firm attitude; & help for Belisarius which is her ex-period. Lines on a florist's rose .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1216. Enclosure – Letter to RG from LR in Spanish (translated by William Graves)
- Title:
- Enclosure – Letter to RG from LR in Spanish (translated by William Graves)
- 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:
- 1937-07-02
- 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-1-865
- 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_1937-07-02_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Letter to RG from LR in Spanish (translated by William Graves) My much appreciated and loved Roberto Here are various fruits. The strawberries go well with the cheese that Alix will bring – I think a lot about you – may all go well. until tomorrow – I will [shall] come in the afternoon, early. Your friend of the soul[bosom friend] Laura
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1217. July 2 Friday.
- Title:
- July 2 Friday.
- 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:
- 1937-07-02
- 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-1-866
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-02.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 2 Friday. Two more drafts of Florist Rose . Laura with news that O.K. is agreeable to us taking on those books with Cassell. Flowers from Margaret. Karl with talk about his researches into Mrs Heine. A.G., with Clarissa for a moment, & paper bag presents of oatcake, salt butter, bananas, tomatoes, a Christening (German) silver spoon of mine, & two gold rings – my old eagle ring, & a signet ring of my paternal grandfather mitre & initials C.L. (Charles Limerick ) on a garnet. Afraid a male Graves will be born to Philip & Kitty which will demote David from his heir-presumptivity of the family.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1218. July 3 Saturday
- Title:
- July 3 Saturday
- 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:
- 1937-07-03
- 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-1-867
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-03.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 3 Saturday Very hot weather indeed. Reading L.H.'s Ghost of Napoleon & Belisarius . Laura came from Watt's: he had thought he could 'place' most of our Seizin books. Then Mother for 2 hours talking. Then Harry & Alix. Decision to buy a car discussed. Letter to Watt about contract
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1219. July 4 Sunday.
- Title:
- July 4 Sunday.
- 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:
- 1937-07-04
- 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-1-868
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-04.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 4 Sunday. A.G. came for a goodbye in the morning. I wrote a long letter to L.H. about Ghost of Napoleon , with remarks on right & wrong use of metaphor, rewriting a metaphorical passage in unmetaphorical language. Laura, with contentment about Seizin plans now. Karl with a book to read about Turkey: Allah Dethroned. I got up for the first time. Pins & needles in my feet, aches in my legs. First draft of a poem “ To break Delight ”.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1220. Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves
- Title:
- Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves
- 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:
- 1937-07-05
- 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-1-869
- 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_1937-07-05_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves Arundale, St. Christopher Letchworth, Herts. July 2 nd , 1937 Dear Robert, Thank you so much for your coins, they were very interesting indeed. I am so sorry for not writing to you before, but circumstances keep occurring which hindered me, and I am going to make this letter as long as possible, especially when you are in bed. Your letter was very welcoming and I have still got it in my locker I think. I am in bed too, for the second time, but I am afraid that you are much worse off than I am. There is an examination for me at the end of this term and I hope I will go through it. Nancy, Geoffrey, David, Catherine and I are going to camp in the holidays for a fortnight immediately after school. [figure: drawing of a horse] There is some work to do even in bed, because I want to get them done before next week. It is very sad about your throat operation and I hope you will get better soon and I should very much like to stay with you at Ewhurst, especially with Jenny, David and Catherine. I have only a bad cough and I was going to play in the 2 nd eleven tomorrow in an away match. Once I had to retire as a batsman in a game of cricket and once I made the most runs in another. My two faults at my lessons are that I cannot catch up finishing my essays easily and that I giggle with my friend Merril Hart. Anyway, I am said to be the only perfect pupil at French Grammar in my group of 11, and some are some years older than I am! However, I have to keep looking up the vocabulary when I read a French book, as I don't know all the words yet. I like geometry very much but I am not good at sums, well, I mean that I am quite ignorant of some and forget their methods of calculating. Catherine could have helped me simply. The mathematics teacher told one of her pupils to teach me a sum about interest and %, but I could not understand him because he just dashed away muttering the numbers, and practically never told me how and why and what to do and so on. Geograph Geography is all very well but the group learned last term something which I did not know about Australiasia Australasia and the table at which I sit is usaully usually far away from the teacher (we just bag our tables, by putting our books on them and also on those for our friends[)]. At craft I am quite keen on it but I was very bad at my toast rack and delayed myself on making it until it got lost. Then yesterday I began again with fresh hope and zeal and I got much further in time, about some minutes compared with some days. I am hoping to make a kite, but there is no one who is keen enough (a boy, I want) to help and share in it. Just now another letter came in from you by Merril and I was ever so pleased when I recognised your writing on the envelope. It must have been awful not to have eaten all that week but I am glad that you have passed it. It is certainly good news about your friend Gelat being free from prison again. I wonder what its like in a prison. I expect that everything would be boring, and little of nature, horrid food, and hard-working. Still, he's out, and that's what matters. I am helping to build a pavillion for the sportsground. We are making the framework for the present. We are going to have a cinema for our school (perhaps because of the school film-education method campaign) and also a swimming bath, (perhaps you have already heard of it). I hope you will all [be] very happy in your new “home” (is your Majorcan home a permanent one?) which you call Ewhurst (nice name, I think). Robert and Laura and Karl, if possible, do come and see me, as I really feel rather lonely and I am longing to show you around this really big school and so on. If you will come, please come on a Saturday, because I find Sundays rather dull and very little people about but tell me first won't you? – because I may be away at camp or things like that. Nancy cannot come because she is too busy. I wish I could have seen the Royal Air Display at Hendon, as I am so very keen on aero- planes, you know. I want to be an air pilot and get some money for Nancy so that she can cover our family costs and so on. I want to fly all kinds of air-craft, right from a small biplane to the “Ensign” monoplanes, if ever I do get a chance. My handicap is my deafness, so I could not hear very well through wireless. If I want to be trained I must be- [figure: two planes sketched in top margin] gin my training at about over 15 or at 17 years of age. All the same, I'll write some books, I hope, after your proffesion profession . I am good at chemistry, I find, and enjoy myself very much writing about the interesting experiments as much as seeing them. Please give my love to Laura and Karl and be happy and cheerful!!!! [figure: wiggly exclamation point] I shall see you again, with much love from XXX SAM XXX
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.