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)
1311. Sept 12 Sunday.
- Title:
- Sept 12 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:
- 1937-09-12
- 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-1-938
- 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_1937-09-12.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 12 Sunday. 8 more pages of Belisarius Chapter IX; archery (which Alix mistakenly called lechery) with her & Harry. Marbles resumed, I won heavily. At lunch we discussed plans for the winter: A & H did not like the idea of Hampstead. Harry had shots at a herd of cock-pheasants. Walked up over the hill & round. Then all 5 of us went in the car to Leith Hill & by the Abingers and Sulton & Shere: contrast between really nice old villages, and Tea-Shoppe and Lavander Ladye places & filling stations Laura read some Ethic writing to me. Alan back from Italy
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1312. Sept 13 Monday .
- Title:
- Sept 13 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:
- 1937-09-13
- 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-1-939
- 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_1937-09-13.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 13 Monday . 10 more pages of Belisarius Chapter IX Thunder and rain; walk to Cranleigh and back in car (Harry from dentist) Laura doing more 'recommendations' & starting The Smuggler again. No; 21pages of Belisarius in all, finishing chapter IX. 'Les silences de Monsieur Hache' donnent à penser a Madame L. qui s'inquiète . Gave Harry & Alix the spare solitaire-board & marbles.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1313. Sept 14 Tuesday
- Title:
- Sept 14 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:
- 1937-09-14
- 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-1-940
- 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_1937-09-14.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 14 Tuesday Warmer, & sunny. In morning 5 pages of Belisarius , (starting chapter 10) and going over yesterday's work, adding another page. I have a lazy habit of writing in bed in my dressing-gown. Ethel came: talking. The most tiring person woman I know. I took her for a walk to get her at least into out of a confined space. She talked & talked about constipation, bree, communication in the ether (I said, afterwards, I was nearly asphyxiated; because L. called her, afterwards, Ether Herdman), Mallik & his conflict-theory try-out in Nepal. She came as a sort of emissary of M. who is finishing his philosophy book & will then retire to the mountains, having done his duty by the race. We took Ether to Guildford, & then Margaret Russell & Leonard came and was perfectly sweet, with yarns about the Woods. * Nyon agreement signed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1314. Sept 15 Wed.
- Title:
- Sept 15 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-09-15
- 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-1-941
- 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_1937-09-15.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 15 Wed. Arrows with Leonard: in competition, with distance handicap. 9 pages of Belisarius chapter X. Went to McCormacks at Old Bursledon in time for tea. They go to Jugoslavia Yugoslavia soon. Stopped at Petersfield on way & bought (all for 8/6) pair of white china candlesticks, pair of Spanish tortoiseshell small-combs, a necklace for Alix, a book on education (1853), a cut fine glass water jug, a pencil stand. At Bursledon Harry & I went for a walk & found a village speed track and a centenarian (105) old Mrs. Carver walking towards a pub at 7.15 pm. Then a hedgehog came to the door & was given milk. We talked & played marbles (with Violet McCormack) & the dreadful Usbornes came & Mrs talked all about lending library books. I slept in the cabin bed in the room with the priest's hole.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1315. Sept 16 Thursday
- Title:
- Sept 16 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:
- 1937-09-16
- 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-1-942
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-09-16.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 16 Thursday It was a fine thunder showery day. We spent the morning in Southampton where I (at Gieves) ordered 2 pairs of corduroy trousers: grey & brown; & roast beef lunch there at Bursledon , & drove back in the rain: looking at ribbon architecture. Stomach upset by the drive. 5 pages of Belisarius , & going over last 3 day's' work. Margaret & Leonard's last evening. Alan returned.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1316. Sept 17 Friday.
- Title:
- Sept 17 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:
- 1937-09-17
- 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-1-943
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-09-17.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 17 Friday. Thunder storms, several of them, alternating with strong sun. Goodbye to Margaret & Leonard & in the evening David Reeves came. 9 pages of chapter X Belisarius . Saw some Chippendal Chippendale chairs at Ch Cranleigh: thinking of furniture, now, for flat. Walk with Alan there: suggested first lines for his poem & mine. mine: 'That ghosts walk here, forgive me.' his: 'Marshes, should, and not be drained, because....'
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1317. Sept 18 Sat
- Title:
- Sept 18 Sat
- 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:
- 1937-09-18
- 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-1-944
- 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_1937-09-18.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 18 Sat 5 pages of Belisarius & going over a week's typing. Archery, nervous stomach, & to Cranleigh & Guildford with David Reeves looking for furniture: no luck. My two biennial game of chess with Harry: a king left to his king & pawn. Laura working on Alan's poems with Alan, who went, on poems & with David on Furniture and Harry on Politics & did some recommendation & then some Swiss Ghost
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1318. Sept 19 Sunday.
- Title:
- Sept 19 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:
- 1937-09-19
- 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-1-945
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-09-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 19 Sunday. A difficult and unsuccessful poem about 'The patriarchal Bed'3 drafts completed chapter X (9pages) Belisarius . Laura writing a poem & working with David: who went back after a chicken-tea. All these days & flights of arrows the target has escaped except from the English arrows. The Indian ones drop all around and graze it by half inches: but never hit.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1319. Sept 20 Monday
- Title:
- Sept 20 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:
- 1937-09-20
- 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-1-946
- 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_1937-09-20.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 20 Monday Chill in stomach: headache. Walked to village & bought cost-price kitchen things for the flat we think of taking in Hampstead or Regent's Park. Also a fourth version (& a new stanza) of yesterday's poem, now called No More Ghosts & Laura approved it after I had changed 2 lines. Read over Chapter X of Belisarius .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1320. Sept 21 Tuesday.
- Title:
- Sept 21 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:
- 1937-09-21
- 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-1-947
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-09-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 21 Tuesday. Went over back chapters of Belisarius , smoothing out contradictions and wrote 9 pages of Chapter XI Laura has been having trouble with her poem now called Bloom Doom in Bloom & did little else all day but 8 lines of it: but working on recommendations late at night. She & I took a long walk past Karl's house & round by Ewhurst Green – the first together for a long time. Read Wodehouse's Something Fresh Bombardment of Nanking Arrest of Troncoso
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.