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)
1491. Jan 15 Saturday (Cable to & from Tom).
- Title:
- Jan 15 Saturday (Cable to & from Tom).
- 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:
- 1938-01-15
- 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-1-1063
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-15.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 15 Saturday (Cable to & from Tom). Back (9.45-1.30). Manchester is a dirty place with a clean face. In the shopping centres every fifth shop is permanently To LET. Working again on preface to my Poems to be published in autumn. After dinner Laura went through Belisarius checks with me.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1492. Jan 16 Sunday
- Title:
- Jan 16 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:
- 1938-01-16
- 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-1-1064
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-16.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 16 Sunday Laura's birthday. Karl gave her a wooden writing-block as a present. Working on preface again. Alix & Harry to tea. Alix left a grease mark on the back of a chair and a bad impression generally – though she gave Laura a nice bib for her meals. Alan & Beryl also there. I gave Laura a French Henry IV silver cloak clasp (Mr. Mills) 7/6. Laura going over Belisarius with me – lots of corrections – & I over her World & Ourselves .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1493. Jan 17 Monday.
- Title:
- Jan 17 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:
- 1938-01-17
- 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-1-1065
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-17.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 17 Monday. Have only got as far as Chapter4 in going over Belisarius . Sam for a walk across the Park & lunch. Saw Nancy for a moment. Laura & I went with Catherine Vandervelde to Autumn at St. Martin's – Flora Robson and Muriel Aked – play crude & commonplace heroine awful – the producer's wife. Mrs. B.Deane. . M.A. was all right. Catherine was sweet & afterwards to the Cafe Royal – Laura wearing her tiger's teeth.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1494. January 18 Tuesday.
- Title:
- January 18 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:
- 1938-01-18
- 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-1-1066
- 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_1938-01-18.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- January 18 Tuesday. Going over L's checks in Belisarius . Chapters 1 - 5 (except-6) finished. Walk over Regent's Park to Mr Mills: bought a pair crystal earrings 1/6, a p butter-pat 1/-, 8 volumes of a French 1001 Nuits 4/- and for 10/- a very fine pair of Elizabethan ? silver earrings, of perforated silver, which twinkle when worn. To Dentist (Mr. Trace) for advice on my wisdom tooth not yet come to the surface. Norman to supper – had not forgotten as we expected – wants to show Laura a girl called Nella Joseph.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1495. Jan 19 Wednesday
- Title:
- Jan 19 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:
- 1938-01-19
- 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-1-1067
- 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_1938-01-19.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 19 Wednesday Work all day on chapters of Belisarius as amended by Laura. A bad head & throat. Laura up to 4.30 last night – I to only 2. Very nice weather. Solace much happier, the sex thing seems passing. Sally to tea: talked about air situation. Would Germany or England crack first in the race – etc – Laura went out and bought a green costume.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1496. Jan 20th Thursday
- Title:
- Jan 20th 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:
- 1938-01-20
- 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-1-1068
- 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_1938-01-20.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 20th Thursday Sent off a third of Belisarius . Worked over Chapter 9 Laura on Letter Book . David Reeves to talk Furniture with Laura. George Buchanan to supper: also Honor & Gordon – David & Alan & Beryl after. Talk about psychology and its use as an animal view of human beings. Gordon being photographed as Gifford Fane, by Ward.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1497. Jan 21 Friday.
- Title:
- Jan 21 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:
- 1938-01-21
- 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-1-1069
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 21 Friday. Transcopies chapter 9. Laura had no time for new: difficult Letter Book problems. Rewrote preface to poems once more. Morley to lunch. He is evidently going to do Lawrence book: asked about copyrights etc. Alan was also there to lunch – Morley good on subject of Auden – who knows how to take care of himself & his sales. His point: 'a dreadful & tedious task digging up the plagiarisms: he will find his own level at the end.' Supper with Ward & Dorothy – saw Wanda bathed – Ward & she both much nicer than before. Hair cut with Louis Golding's kosher cousin. Marie & Karl off for week-end.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1498. Jan 22 Saturday.
- Title:
- Jan 22 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-22
- 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-1-1070
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-22.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 22 Saturday. Laura worked until 8.30 am & then slept until it was time to catch the train to Orpington (Roz met us at the station Charing X). We had lunch there – a 30/- suburban villa. Roz in worse trouble with Jim: an unofficial separation. Would have been sorry for her but for her intensely stupid impartial-psychological misreadings of the past. Paul's first birthday. Some people called Mrs Saxton & Mrs Bicknell to tea: more humour than Roz. Ingrid, the Hamburg nurse, drove us back. Laura did Belisarius again. Another letter from John Lucy. Last time it was threats & 'forgive me'. This time threats and 'you cruel shits!' Work on three recent poems.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1499. Jan 23 Sunday.
- Title:
- Jan 23 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:
- 1938-01-23
- 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-1-1071
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 23 Sunday. Did housework in morning Belisarius complete to chapter 11 inclusive – Laura takes 2 ¼ hours to correct, I 4 hours to adopt her corrections for each chapter. Lunch with Alix & Harry – good. Karl brought presents: 10 silver lustre buttons for Laura and a blue glass toilet bottle and for me a watch-case to stand on my table – it fitted L's watch not mine. Supper to Maisie's – Tanny Brown too – in his flat now rearranged. Maisie gave Laura a large Elizabethan stage-ring – silver-glass backed with ruby foil. A row: Laura spoke sharply about the way M. treated her 'talk' about poetry, M. was hurt. Solace came out with us to lunch & supper.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1500. Jan 24 Monday.
- Title:
- Jan 24 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:
- 1938-01-24
- 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-1-1072
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-01-24.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 24 Monday. Took chapters 9 - 12 inclusive to Flower, and John's design for wrapper. At Mr. Mills got a pair of bell earrings (pinchbeck) 4/-,another butter press 1/-, a an ostrich egg stand (coconut, carved, chinese) 1/6. Also gilt frame 7/6 Brought back the silver cloak-clasp with attachments fixed. Another chapter, 13. W Laura wrote a batch of letters. A spring day: no heater needed in my room at night.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.