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)
1611. Enclosure – Clipping from Sunday Times “Count Belisarius”
- Title:
- Enclosure – Clipping from Sunday Times “Count Belisarius”
- 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:
- 1938-05-01
- 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-1-1169
- 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_1938-05-01_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Clipping from Sunday Times “Count Belisarius” Letter by J.H. Williams
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1612. May 1st Sunday
- Title:
- May 1st 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:
- 1938-05-01
- 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-1-1169
- 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_1938-05-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 1st Sunday Wrote a long answer to Sunday Times on this cutting. Laura long abed. The Simmons's came to lunch & were with us all day, talking. In the evening we went together to the Cervantes in Old Compton Street and afterwards to Café Royal. I had a bad stomach cured by 4 brandies. At C.R. succeeded in not knowing Hugh Walpole, and Aaronson. Laura worked on Protocol : she was suddenly overwhelmed with tiredness at 2 o'clock. Stayed in bed until lunch next day.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1613. May 2 Monday.
- Title:
- May 2 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:
- 1938-05-02
- 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-1-1170
- 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_1938-05-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 2 Monday. Nancy wrote a queer letter refusing L's & my offer of a poodle. Back to formal relationship. More work on letter to S.T. All afternoon worked with Laura on the Protocol . * Laura writing a poem – one she laid down 8 months ago – for first time since then. Leonard to lunch. Decided to take Margaret with us to France.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1614. May 3 Tuesday
- Title:
- May 3 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:
- 1938-05-03
- 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-1-1171
- 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_1938-05-03.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 3 Tuesday Smuggler Sam on way to school: brought him to lunch & saw him off at King's +. He had made a wool rug of his own design. Long talk with Mr Mills. Bought for 1/6 an agate brooch with a milky pattern: for myself. Norman to supper. Mary Lucy to say goodbye – going back to Ireland because her husband has become a good Catholic. She gave Laura a length of lace & I gave her some pink beads. She was quite good. Laura & I working on a phrase Norman questioned in protocol .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1615. May 4 Wednesday.
- Title:
- May 4 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:
- 1938-05-04
- 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-1-1172
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-04.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 4 Wednesday. Laura has not been well for 3 days. * Agreed to let Dent do dictionary . John came to lunch and stayed until 4.15, talking about literal way of painting pictures Alan there too. Then Laura to dentist, I to Mr Mills where: ivory earrings for Alix negro boys (Georgian) for Norman Russian dolls for Wanda. (£1.2/- in all) L. John & I met for coffee again in Yarners, Regent St. Then Laura & I went to Dickens & Jones where she bought a brown leather purse with a twirl on it 29/6. Laura worked on my poems , Schools , Harry's book , etc.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1616. May 5 Thursday.
- Title:
- May 5 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:
- 1938-05-05
- 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-1-1173
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-05.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 5 Thursday. Wrote a number of letters for Laura Then lunch with Jenny at Café Royal at 12 oclock David should have come but came by a later train from Oxford. Jenny overworked by rehearsals for Cochran's revue. Back to Alma Square. Len working with Laura. David & I then walked to Piccadilly via Mr Mills (five blue purple Bristol buttons 2/6) took David to Allen's for a dress suit (to be paid for by Mallik) Then back: walk across Park. Then in evening a German film about music at Dresden: monstrously physical. Then David (stopping the night) work with Laura on Protocol till 2.30
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1617. May 6 Friday.
- Title:
- May 6 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:
- 1938-05-06
- 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-1-1174
- 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_1938-05-06.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 6 Friday. A very long letter to Tom & Julie. David muddled lunch with Jenny so stopped over until seeing having dinner with her: went back at 10 oclock. David & I went to Church St Market: I bought 4 Wedgewood Wedgwood coffee cups & saucers 1/-, 1 teapot stand Blue flowers 6d Laura to Dentist: David, Alan & I went in a taxi to Baker St & walked back together. I was pretty tired. In evening Mary & Bill Fuller: protocol talk – he slow & industrious, she quick & lazy. Mary F. was given the green & white necklace originally made for L.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1618. May 7 Saturday.
- Title:
- May 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:
- 1938-05-07
- 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-1-1175
- 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_1938-05-07.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 7 Saturday. A lazy day. Did a lot of phoning: went twice to the street market and bought a large coffee pot 6d , a tea-pot stand 1d, a holly-patterned sugar bowl 1/-, a yellow & blue crochetted silk purse 6d, a Russian easter-egg 1/6d, a silver gilt brooch 6d, another cup & saucer 3d. David Reeves in afternoon. Laura & I saw him off at Marylebone Station & walked back in the bitter wind. After supper Julian Symons came to talk to Laura about an American number of his 20th Century Verse: Laura went over a poem of his with him. It was the first time he had been subjected to literal criticism of his poems & he behaved very decently.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1619. May 8 Sunday.
- Title:
- May 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:
- 1938-05-08
- 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-1-1176
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-08.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- May 8 Sunday. Wrote two very long letters for Laura to California, a long one to Eric & so on. In afternoon to Ward & Dorothy's to Wanda's birthday party (we gave her two jointed dolls) – present, Harry & Alix, Janet, Alan & Beryl – then to supper at Len & Jane's – taxi & bus Laura talked film company possibilities with Len and I had a walk with Jane. A.P.H., & Michael & Axelle Ross in the Black Lion. On return tired out by long bus journey and after a discussion with Laura about Immortality went to bed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1620. Letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Herbert Read, May 09, 1938
- Title:
- Letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Herbert Read, May 09, 1938
- Description:
- Part of a collection of letters from Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky to Sir Herbert Read. A letter in French from Kandinsky to Read.
- Subject:
- Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944, Poets, Read, Herbert, 1893-1968, Anarchists, Art historians, Poets, English, Artists, Authors, Authors, English, and Painters
- Creator:
- Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
- Contributor:
- Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
- Language:
- fre
- Date Created:
- 1938-05-09
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- License:
- Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- HR/WK-4
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Geographic Coverage:
- France--Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Coordinates:
- 48.8846, 2.26965
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Typewritten.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Herbert Read Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- correspondence and letters (correspondence)
- Archival Item Identifier:
- File: 9.4
- Fonds Title:
- Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC100
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collections finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/sir-herbert-edward-read-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2022/2023
- Technical Note:
- Scanning and metadata by Rowan O'Brian and additional metadata by SC.