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)
1241. July 14 Wednesday.
- Title:
- July 14 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:
- 1937-07-14
- 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-1-878
- 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_1937-07-14.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 14 Wednesday. Fine day, hot. wore my linen suit. Collected Poems now typed, and complete, but L has not seen some of the new ones. Letters. Read Birth of Middle Ages & Oman's Art of War . Laura finished Chapter 6 of Swiss Ghost & we talked over 7. and 7 wanted it. The Crown has a most beautiful garden, lawn, roses, dovecote and enclosing cypresses. Feeling much stronger. Recovered prestige at marbles. Five pages of Chapter 7 of S. Ghost . Lost my Georgian corkscrew in moving here: much mourned.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1242. July 15 Thursday.
- Title:
- July 15 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:
- 1937-07-15
- 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-1-879
- 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_1937-07-15.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 15 Thursday. In the car to Guildford . Bought 2 Staffordshire jugs for Philip's wedding present, & a pair of pinchbeck earrings for Laura, 5/-. Also putters & golf balls at Woolworths. Heavy weather, rain in evening. 10 pages of Ghost chapter VII. Smiths Dictionary of Bible, Christian Biography, Christian Antiquities – 10 huge volumes, & Milman's Latin Christianity in 8 volumes came, Procopius in 6. (one to follow). Reading Procopius. ¿ How to deal with the ineluctable mauve carpet & the irremediable yellow-brown fire-place tiles?
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1243. July 16 Friday
- Title:
- July 16 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-16
- 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-1-880
- 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_1937-07-16.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 16 Friday No Alice Mace: who has a cough. Toothache. 10 more pages of Ghost . Beryl has come to stay with Alan. Golf ball duels on lawn and in the evening thread duels on the purple carpet. Reading Procopius . L. not sleeping well again. 'Agreement in principle' on British non-intervention scheme.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1244. July 17th Saturday
- Title:
- July 17th 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:
- 1937-07-17
- 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-1-881
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-17.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 17th Saturday Messrs Pyke the agent recommended Mr. L. Trace a Cranleigh dentist: & he seems unusually good. Hopes to save the tooth: x-rayed it. for us Fortunately Alice Mace came & we engaged another woman for 2 hours a day. Rewrote a long-abandoned poem – ' Angry Samson ' – and did another 5 pages of Ghost , in spite of tooth still aching. Cooked bacon, potato, mushroom supper. Very stiff back. Then (Harry driving,) Laura, Alix, Beryl, Alan, Karl & I went in the car first to the 'Windmill' on Pitch Hill, then to Shere where there are deaf white cats one of which was sitting on the church porch roof among bats – and a Barn Theatre mostly given over to chambering & wantoness. The road to Shere is through a nutwood-covered tunnel – like a Russian sap.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1245. July 18 Sunday
- Title:
- July 18 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:
- 1937-07-18
- 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-1-882
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-18.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 18 Sunday Got up & helped Harry with washing-up, and prepared the stove-fire and put in the roast. But was then driven back to bed with intense toothache & neuralgia: the toothache apparently from a tooth behind the one Trace has been attending to. Aspirins, hot bottle; gravy on bread for lunch. Managed to write 4 pages of Ghost before it got too bad. Mr. Trace consented to see me at 5. Found an abscess under the other tooth, an eye tooth. Got an anaesthetist to gas me & removed most of it with difficulty. It was rotten & fast in the bonebone. Afterwards I wept & went home to bed: removed a piece of casing with a forceps & felt better. I said, on coming out of the anaesthetic that the way wisdom teeth were fitted into the mouth made one a Manichean, sceptical of a wise Personal benevolent God. Finished Chapter 7 of Ghost .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1246. July 19 Monday
- Title:
- July 19 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:
- 1937-07-19
- 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-1-883
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 19 Monday Anniversary of Rebellion and a dull, sweaty awful day. Face swollen. Not much pain, as such; but feeling lacerated. Letter from E. Altounyan from Aleppo wanting to correspond about Poetry. Replied. Laura working on Letter Book . I made a start of Chapter 8 of Ghost , and (11 pages) wrote several letters, made up a/cs. Sent Claudius film version to Random House. Dressed for supper. Thunderstorm. 66 reintroduced. Rebel counterattack at Brunete fails. Karl making a mask of home-mashed papier-maché, painted. War starting in China.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1247. July 20 Tuesday
- Title:
- July 20 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-20
- 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-1-884
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-20.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 20 Tuesday Face still swollen: a good deal of pain. Two drafts of a poem called ' Cataphracts ' Sunny day. Read Procopius , another fairly final draft of Cataphracts . In bed, except to supper.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1248. July 21 Wednesday
- Title:
- July 21 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-21
- 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-1-885
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 21 Wednesday Pain still: taking a sort of aspirin called Veg Anodin or something. Reading Procopius . To Dentist who alleviated somewhat but I am to expect pain for a day or two yet until the root of the tooth eases out. Back by bus. Harry now practically always wins at marbles: I have no patience (or perhaps toothache). Cataphracts now in order and have discarded A Wounded Man . Slight alterations to other poems. Rewrote ' The Stake '. Laura finishing preface to Letter Book . Peroxide treatment of tooth.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1249. July 22nd Thursday
- Title:
- July 22nd 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:
- 1937-07-22
- 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-1-886
- 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_1937-07-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 22nd Thursday Swelling nearly gone: pain still. * Began writing Belisarius , 6 pages. Nothing else much all day; letters, toothache, marbles in which I worked out a new technique. Peroxide mouth washes. The mask dressed up in an old dress of Laura's is a witch hanging on the wall in the dining room.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1250. July 23rd Friday
- Title:
- July 23rd 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:
- 1937-07-23
- 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-1-887
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 23rd Friday Dentist again. Less pain. Root of tooth mounting in socket. Iodine applications. Spent most of day in bed, writing (& reading for) 17 pages of Belisarius . All sorts of preparations going forward for my birthday.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.