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)
Works (3033)
1271. Aug 7 Saturday.
- Title:
- Aug 7 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:
- 1937-08-07
- 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-1-902
- 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_1937-08-07.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 7 Saturday. Hotter still. Fighting a headache. But am very much better in health. Wrote a Recommendation for L's letter-book about 'la femme oisive ' as a recommender. 5 pages of Chapter IV of Belisarius . Catherine Van de Velde came down. We went to Shere to see an amateur play called The College Mystery by Phoebe Rees who was present, a red-haired broadfaced girl.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1272. Aug 8 Sunday
- Title:
- Aug 8 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:
- 1937-08-08
- 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-1-903
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-08-08.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 8 Sunday Cooller Cooler . Did 16 pages of Chapter IV Belisarius today. We played games on the lawn – triangular Planet golf with partners, and went for a walk through the woods, in the course of which Harry mysteriously lost an arrow in a field. Query ¿did a wounded rabbit carry it off? We saw Catherine off at Cranleigh. Laura writing the Letter book .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1273. Aug 9 Monday.
- Title:
- Aug 9 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:
- 1937-08-09
- 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-1-904
- 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_1937-08-09.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 9 Monday. Alix went to Keighly about her milk bacteriologies. I wrote 12 pages & finished chapter IV of Belisarius : & went over it. A walk along the Ewhurst road ending at the Bull's Head (L, Harry, Karl & I). I lost my pigskin double cigarette case on the road. Letter from Short: the £125 arrived safely. Sent N.N. a cheque (up to next January.)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1274. Aug 10 Tuesday.
- Title:
- Aug 10 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:
- 1937-08-10
- 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-1-905
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-08-10.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 10 Tuesday. Found rooms for friends in the village. Recovered my cigarette case at police-station: reward of 5/- went to a poor woman with unemployed husband. 12 pages of Chapter V Belisarius . (Eyestrain from Classical dictionaries). A long hunt after rabbits, walk with Laura to hairdresser, planet golf with Harry & L & Karl. Laura working with Harry on Letters . She said: 'I have just seen our washerwoman. She is old and fat and...pretty' Met Evans of Heinemann's at the Bull's Head: he recognized me first, after about eight years.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1275. Aug 11 Wed.
- Title:
- Aug 11 Wed.
- 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:
- 1937-08-11
- 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-1-906
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-08-11.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 11 Wed. We went to MacCormacks at Old Burseldon: Harry driving – L. Karl & me. via Haslemere, Liphook, Petersfield, Waterlooville, Fareham. They gave me a New Zealand bow which is very stiff & awkward to string but a 'real museum piece' and Laura a pinchbeck necklace that had belonged to Mr Violet's grandmother who if living now would be 120 years old. Mrs. Jones left us today. A little work on Belisarius but resting eyes of strain: Marble game with Harry – smallest number of moves to cross over two sets: 15 could not be bettered. [sketch of two crossed arrows]
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1276. Enclosure – Cutting from the Daily Telegraph , “History's Parallels” by H.V. Kemp History's Parallels
- Title:
- Enclosure – Cutting from the Daily Telegraph , “History's Parallels” by H.V. Kemp History's Parallels
- 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:
- 1937-08-11
- 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-1-906
- 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_1937-08-11_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Cutting from the Daily Telegraph , “History's Parallels” by H.V. Kemp History's Parallels To the Editor... Harry and I did this together
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1277. Aug 12 Thursday
- Title:
- Aug 12 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-08-12
- 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-1-907
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-08-12.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 12 Thursday Incorporated a lot of new Alan material in Chapter 4 & what I had done of Chapter 5. Tanny Brown and John & Lucie came to lunch. Tanny went off early, John & Lucie stayed the night. John broke the bow (the English one) & Tanny & he & Karl & I mended it with twine-binding. Talk about 'maltashes' Lucie's word for women towards whom homosexuals feel sympathetic. I cooked the supper. Rain in evening.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1278. Aug 13 Friday.
- Title:
- Aug 13 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:
- 1937-08-13
- 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-1-908
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-08-13.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 13 Friday. No Alice, even. Washed up, talk with John & L in her room. To Guildford to fetch Catherine & Sam. They are camping in our field, but eating at Holmcroft Guest House. Harry brought the car to Guildford which has a rattle: nothing serious. John & Lucie came in too & we all ate 6 of us at the Angel. (Laura & Alix at home). Supper at Holmcroft & games on the lawn & indoors with the children. Very tired Went over Chapter III typed of Belisarius .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1279. Aug 14 Saturday
- Title:
- Aug 14 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:
- 1937-08-14
- 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-1-909
- 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_1937-08-14.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 14 Saturday A rainy day: had to dry Sam's bed-clothes. But Alice came Children They hired bicycles, played games about the house, read. Visit to pub Crown in evening, all but Laura. I cooked supper. Alan & Norman, so that in the evening we were L. Robert, Alix Harry, Catherine, Sam, Karl, Alan Norman. More work on Chapter IV & 4 2 pages more of Chapter 5. Alan bought me a magnifying reading glass (30/- for 21/- because chipped) Laura weary; at Letter book . No military news from Spain for the last few days. Bombardment of Shanghai.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1280. Aug 15 Sunday.
- Title:
- Aug 15 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:
- 1937-08-15
- 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-1-910
- 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_1937-08-15.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 15 Sunday. Jenny & David came down. I had a sick headache all morning. All day spent in talk, games, jokes – particularly bows & arrows with David & Sam, & a talk about money with Jenny. After supper there were eleven of us. David has got his higher certificate & left Dauntsey's. L & I decided to let Constable to do our poems. Went over typed chapter IV of Belisarius Rebel advance on Santander.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.