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
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Works (3033)
1631. Monday May 16
- Title:
- Monday May 16
- 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:
- 1938-05-16
- 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-1-1184
- 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_1938-05-16.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday May 16 2 versions of The Miller's Man a poem. In afternoon went with Mr Mills via Liverpool Street along down the East End [:] Shadwell, Poplar, Limehouse, West India Docks etc. Saw Sidney Street; Georgian houses, Dock River, Chinatown, Charley Brown's, and was with him buying antiques from Mr Philips in the Jewish quarter. I bought a reading glass for 4/- and at a rag dealers he bought an iron Elizabethan coffer for 2/- (later sold for £7.10). Bridget, the Simmonds to supper: looked at costume plates. X Leonard accepted by the Exmouth captain. From Mr Mills bought 2 old french glass seals : Prés de toi je fleuris and Tu la sais: n'en dis pas .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1632. Tuesday May 17
- Title:
- Tuesday May 17
- 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:
- 1938-05-17
- 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-1-1185
- 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_1938-05-17.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Tuesday May 17 Another version of Miller's Man Work on other poems, including In Your Name now called At First Sight . Protocol with Laura for 3 hours from 11.30 pm to 2.30 am. Visit from McCormacks + Betty who brought us a Javanese doll. At Mr Mills bought (from Denis Thacker): 1 Arab burnous; 1 Indian silk & gold thread jacket; 1 Papal Zouave red trousers; 1 Italian white waistcoat for £1. Evans of Heinemann failed to do anything about World & Ourselves .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1633. Eighteenth of MAY1938. Enclosure – Letter from Desmond Flower regarding LR's Collected Poems
- Title:
- Eighteenth of MAY1938. Enclosure – Letter from Desmond Flower regarding LR's Collected Poems
- 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:
- 1938-05-18
- 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-1-1187
- 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_1938-05-19_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Letter from Desmond Flower regarding LR's Collected Poems CASSELL & COMPANY, Ltd. Publishers LA BELLE SAUVAGE LONDON , E.C.4 Eighteenth of MAY 1938. Robert Graves, Esquire, 31, Alma Square, St. John's Wood, North Way8 Dear Graves, We are sending you herewith a proof copy of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LAURA RIDING , which we are having the privilege of publishing shortly, in conjunction with Random House of New York. Though Laura Riding's poetic work is regarded with high respect on both sides of the Atlantic, poets and critics of poetry have had some difficulty in characterizing that unfamiliar quality which differentiates it from the work of every other poet of her time. Is it because she is the first woman poet to write neither in the 'feminine' tradition nor in the 'modern' male tradition – but with a powerful sense of the significance of woman in the world of poetic values? Or is it because her ability language carry more meaning than it conventionally does? Certainly there seems to be no one with whom she can be easily compared – though her work has provoked imitation and exerted strong influence. We are writing on this subject to a limited number of poets and critics, asking them to signalize the appearance of this book with a considered statement about its contents; and should be most grateful if you would care to give yours as briefly or as fully as you find convenient. Yours sincerely, Desmond Flower
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1634. Wed May 18
- Title:
- Wed May 18
- 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:
- 1938-05-18
- 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-1-1186
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-18.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Wed May 18 Smuggler again. Laura went over poems with me, early ones: suppressed two, worked on four. Beads in the Church St market: made two necklaces pink-crystal and paste roundels and gold red white & blue. Laura working on Damage , Harry's thing, Ward's. Someone called Gardner sent books for me to sign, unasked: I put them in cloak room at Piccadilly & sent him ticket. He replied I was no gentleman & full of my own importance. At Church Street: 2 maple frames for John's lithograph 1/- the pair. Margaret & Leonard.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1635. Thurs. May 19
- Title:
- Thurs. May 19
- 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:
- 1938-05-19
- 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-1-1187
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Thurs. May 19 Reading Laura's Wives (Cyrus) Going over poems. Honor came: discussed the Len scenario. Mr. Fennimore & Miss Phepsie of the Register of Design came at night – with Len – and talked about the reasons for bad designs in pottery etc: the buyer was chiefly responsible.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1636. Friday May 20th
- Title:
- Friday May 20th
- 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:
- 1938-05-20
- 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-1-1188
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-20.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Friday May 20th Work on poems: mostly In Procession To Selfridge's bought socks vests, pants. At Mr Mills a Victorian egg-boiler to replace broken one 1/6. Met Laura at dentists Coffee with Alan at Yardrah or whatever the place is called in Regent St. Protocol at night – the mercy clause – with L. until very late.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1637. Sat May 21
- Title:
- Sat May 21
- 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:
- 1938-05-21
- 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-1-1189
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat May 21 Lucy sent the Dutch garnet necklace (from Petticoat Lane) restrung with white beads (from a barrow). Proofs of Laura's poems. At Church St. bought for 6d a 1837 copy of Snarleyow and for 12/6 a large blue Bristol bowl. Finished going over In Procession . L.Hart in afternoon going over Protocol . In evening walk with L & Alan in Regent's Park, sitting in deckchairs by the Lake. About 9 Laura got a faintness & palpitations. Dr. C.H. Barber called and gave her things. Due to annoyance with a wireless while writing a poem; and general tiredness. Everyone in London expected war tonight: Czechoslavak business. We not.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1638. Sunday May 22
- Title:
- Sunday May 22
- 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:
- 1938-05-22
- 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-1-1190
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-22.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday May 22 Laura spent all day in bed resting. I looked after her & also spent a long time on a letter to Flower about L's poems. Montague & Dorothy to supper. Dorothy told us that on the 20th, the day to which a perfect stranger had pointed, giving her a charm, as a very lucky one, she had been pushed into the river at Blackfriars by a Lesbian but managed to catch at a chain & pull herself to safety. The charm in her handbag also escaped: the bag bounced off from a post. Then the woman tried to kill herself but Dorothy rescued her.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1639. Monday May 23
- Title:
- Monday May 23
- 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:
- 1938-05-23
- 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-1-1191
- 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_1938-05-23.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday May 23 Smuggler . Laura a bit better. Bought from Bad Fairy in St John's Wood 2/6 a small sky blue Bristol vase. Harry bought a blue Georgian glass Bristol bell with plain handle as a present. Honor & Gordon. Honor stayed the night.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1640. Tuesday May 24th
- Title:
- Tuesday May 24th
- 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:
- 1938-05-24
- 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-1-1192
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-24.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Tuesday May 24th All day phoning & letters and going over Lawrence excisions (by trustees) with a view to pleading against them. At Mr Mills, presents for Honor & Gordon, and for us a Nelson-time (4/-) sail-caulker and 4 real pewter ash-trays (once property of Ellen Terry) being travellers samples of plates: (so we can discard the old ones, which are modern) 10/- Also small horn box 1/6 (to Jane) Smuggler until very late
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.