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)
1251. July 24th Saturday . My 42nd Birthday.
- Title:
- July 24th Saturday . My 42nd Birthday.
- 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:
- 1937-07-24
- 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-1-888
- 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_1937-07-24.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 24th Saturday . My 42nd Birthday. Laura gave me a small Georgian wooden tea-tray & a Stuart table-knife & fork, ivory & inlaid silver handles. Alix & Harry an old Enlgish bow & a quiver of arrows. Karl & Alan a bottle of Kümmel . Margaret Russell send sent birthday cards; a minituare miniature desk book-case, with drawing pins, paper clips etc. Honor a greeting telegram. James & Mary brought me sherry. Everyone working hard, cutting sandwiches etc: I met two buses for Mary Lucy (first time of meeting) but she came on the third. Balloons, fireworks, the drawing-room fireplace disguised with greenery. Arguments on how not to string a bow. I finished Chapter 1 of Belisarius & began going over it: retiring temporarily to bed with toothache. A game playing in a pegged-out maze in the garden of redisposing 18 lines of Lady of Shallot from single lines on cards. Talk & games until 1.30 when L & I tidied up. Comic academic disputations between James & Alan on the immorality of a man on a desert island. Serious discussion of the Permanance theory as opposed to Buchmannite change & on the condition of poets when not writing poems.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1252. July 25 Sunday
- Title:
- July 25 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:
- 1937-07-25
- 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-1-889
- 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_1937-07-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 25 Sunday Everyone exhausted by yesterday & no Alice: got up & got 4 breakfasts. Then with Alix cooked lunch for 7 – Alix, Harry, Mary Lucy, James, Mary, Laura, me. Rested in early afternoon & finished going over Belisarius . Ros came with her three boys & Jim & a German nurse & a Baronin Elfrida von something in Wartemburg. Sticky & Roz talked nonsense in a conversationaly polite way. Her eldest boy sneaked a golf-ball. Retired to bed with toothache after supper & goodbye to James & Mary. Laura talking with M.L. most of the day. I gave Alan instructions as to what to look up for Chapter 2 of Belisarius . Biggest battle of War : at Brunete, which has been retaken by Franco.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1253. July 26 Monday.
- Title:
- July 26 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-26
- 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-1-890
- 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_1937-07-26.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 26 Monday. Wrote to Jenny asking her for a statement about herself;& to Nancy about guardianship of children in event of her, my, our deaths. Dentist , who stopped tooth & had expected pain to be diminished: took X-ray. Mary Lucy is a poet: saw some of her poems, obviously she is a poet. A year ago she had had an instinct about Laura: from a chance word about her. Would get to know her. I took 2 Veganins, which removed pain, but made my heart pound. Karl & Harry at Archery.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1254. July 27 Tuesday.
- Title:
- July 27 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:
- 1937-07-27
- 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-1-891
- 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_1937-07-27.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 27 Tuesday. Went over most of typed chapter 1 of Belisarius : read Procopius. Wrote letters. Talking all morning with Mary Lucy mostly about Peggy & Nan & Ben & such old stories. Ben had left Winifred because she had a 3rd child – one too many – & then had triplets by Barbara. Mary Lucy went. Archery in garden: I got quite to understand the bow.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1255. July 28 Wednesday.
- Title:
- July 28 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:
- 1937-07-28
- 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-1-892
- 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_1937-07-28.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 28 Wednesday. Wrote 13 pages of Belisarius chapter II. Shot at rabbits with bow & arrow. Went to dentist by bus. He says: it will be some time before the splinter of root works out, but better to stand the pain than spend two days in hospital. Be The pain should gradually subside now. Laura, Alix, Harry went to Dolmetsch concert at Haslemere. Laura doing Letter book . A new very good cook, Mrs Jones, who immediately broken broke 2 of the 4 Wedgewood plates.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1256. July 29 Thursday
- Title:
- July 29 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:
- 1937-07-29
- 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-1-893
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-29.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 29 Thursday Alix & Harry away. In the morning did 8 pages of Belisarius , Chapter 2. Accuracy with bow increasing. Alan sent Vegetius précis. At night finished draft of chapter 2. Wrote to Watt approving Cassell contract. Walk with Laura in wood, away from Ewhurst. Fields given over to rabbits & thistles. Found a surprising accuracy with bow & arrow. Karl with a cataclysmic cold. Reading Procopius. Franco offensive at Brunete broken: the losses greater on his side, perhaps.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1257. July 30 Friday
- Title:
- July 30 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:
- 1937-07-30
- 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-1-894
- 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_1937-07-30.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 30 Friday Reading Sidonius Apollinaris More heavy weather. Going over draft of chapter 2. The McCormacks came with Jennifer & we talked & played games (archery & putting) until they left at five. Tooth aching less. Continued work on chapter 2 until late at night (2 pm a.m. ) after Norman had arrived, with Alix, to stay a bit. Karl, cataclysmic, is in bed today.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1258. July 31 Saturday.
- Title:
- July 31 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:
- 1937-07-31
- 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-1-895
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-07-31.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 31 Saturday. Shopping in Cranleigh Bought an octagonal china plate (1830-ish) for Laura with Robinson Crusoe & his Family on it. Gave completed chapter 2 to Karl to type – Karl better. Tooth aching less. Reading Sidonius Apollinaris . Laura at work on Letter book . Norman took us in a car to Guildford via Shere where I bought for 6/- a silver lustre sugar bowl & for 6/6 a flat steel instrument between a spoon & an omlette knife. I woke up this morning repeating: “ milliers des roberts qui se battent pour nous ” roberts in my dream meant policeman. Alan's Year of Damage rejected by Constable.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1259. Aug 1 Sunday.
- Title:
- Aug 1 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:
- 1937-08-01
- 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-1-896
- 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_1937-08-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 1 Sunday. Rose late. 4 pages of Chapter 3 of Belisarius including a Latin set of verses about Christians as Rabbits & 4 Latin Lendecasyllabics. A walk with Laura & Norman through fields to Holmbury. Harry returned, silent & embarassed at our company. Putting with Norman. Jokes: Norman says “What a small place a dictionary is after all” More Sidonius Apollinaris & Milman's Latin Christianity . Drinks at the Crown : full of hikers & hikeresses. Solace the kitten caught her first (tiny) mouse.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1260. Anniversary of leaving Deyá Aug 2 Monday Bank Holiday.
- Title:
- Anniversary of leaving Deyá Aug 2 Monday Bank Holiday.
- 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:
- 1937-08-02
- 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-1-897
- 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_1937-08-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Anniversary of leaving Deyá Aug 2 Monday Bank Holiday. Wrote 6 pages of Belisarius (and a lot of reading to go with it). Went over 22 pages of Laura's typescript, Letter book . Invented a new game on lawn, two a side: Laura & Norman, Alix & me, putting on the lawn driving a coloured india rubber ball between opposite goals. Feathered another arrow on a small cane shaft bought at Cranleigh – the best arrow for shooting we have. Beer at the pub with Norman. Toothache all but gone.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.