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)
1711. July 27 Wed
- Title:
- July 27 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:
- 1938-07-27
- 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-1-1256
- 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_1938-07-27.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 27 Wed To Montauban with Dorothy: wheeling punctured bicycle. Just as we got back the other tire blew out. In the evening there were bees in a log in the fire & Dorothy's foot got stung. Laura: Aristotle and letters Figs stewed in butter, then wine. Rain: fires in evening. Laura went over some poems with me. I take charge of lamps.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1712. July 28 Thursday
- Title:
- July 28 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:
- 1938-07-28
- 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-1-1257
- 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_1938-07-28.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 28 Thursday Rewrote seven poems on lines suggested by Laura. Laura with interruptions doing Aristotle. A new drink: cold tea & cider. The strangest day. The bees were not in the log but in the chimney. We lit huge fires of cypress-branches and killed great numbers. At last a honey comb (with young bees but no honey) tumbled down. Thousands of bees buzzed over the roof & we lit fires in Laura's workroom, Dorothy's bedroom, mine. But they persisted. Then Alan went to nail board up holes in loft against bats. Beryl & I went up too. Mice and bats. We took up the kitten. Found a nest of ten bats & killed them, jabbing with boards. It was fearfully hot. Stuffed green peppers with rice. Yesterday there was a breadpudding situation. Laura went over more poems – another bat in kitchen.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1713. Enclosure – £1 from Honor Wyatt
- Title:
- Enclosure – £1 from Honor Wyatt
- 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:
- 1938-07-29
- 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-1-1258
- 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_1938-07-29_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – £1 from Honor Wyatt [“Refer to drawer” written at top]
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1714. July 29 Friday.
- Title:
- July 29 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:
- 1938-07-29
- 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-1-1258
- 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_1938-07-29.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 29 Friday. Getting Norman's room ready. Bees still crawling about in dining-room & Laura's work room. Menuisier did lavatory, meat , - safe, balcony & wire-netting in room on stairs. I stored away trunks. Modeste getting rather a trial. Laura went over a number of my poems & I worked over them all day. A bath in the child's bath – first one for a month, only washing in basins – clean white clothes. New moon; and walk all 5 of us down a lane toward Montfort at dusk. Hot day. Dorothy got clay for modelling. Laura got a fairly good day's work done on Aristotle.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1715. July 30 Saturday
- Title:
- July 30 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:
- 1938-07-30
- 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-1-1259
- 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_1938-07-30.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 30 Saturday Norman came: but only for the day and night. (Bank holiday) We went for a ride in the Priour car to Montfort, had tea in the Patisserie (Norman, Laura, me, Dorothy, Alan & Beryl) Not much talk. Norman feels the Catherine situation keenly: she trying to legislate for him about his friends. (Margaret will go to Len & Jane.) But he marries in September. We gambled with ever increasing 100's. Beryl lost 300 francs but Alan won 265 and when we had scaled things up my 60 franc winnings were only 20. The furniture came. At the farm they threshed: 15 people at work feeding the machine, carting away the oats, seconds, chaff, and building a tall haystack around a pole. Modeste went to help and got involved in the semi-sexual fun – tumbled in the hay & hurt in her dignity.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1716. July 31 Sunday.
- Title:
- July 31 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:
- 1938-07-31
- 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-1-1260
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-31.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 31 Sunday. A rather mad day. Got up at 5.15. Alan & Beryl already up since 4.30 waiting for bee-taker & Juan, duck hunting. At 6 both came. Juan & his Breton friend with a white retriever 'Apporte, mon beau, apporte mon petit homme! ' got 2 moor-hen – no duck. The bee-taker & menuisier found ladders too short for roof, so could not take honey comb from chimney top – they had burned sulphur in my chimney. So Juan shot up the chimneys & got no comb, only sooty wasps, bees & pupas. We put up the beds – I have a charming whitish one, wooden, with knobs. Laura brown one with bobbined-rail – having to saw transomes. Norman left at 3.50. A bicycle ride along by the lake – many bathers & fishers. I went over several poems: and was stung in the foot by a wasp. (Garlic)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1717. Log Entries of Letters for July, 1938 Letters
- Title:
- Log Entries of Letters for July, 1938 Letters
- 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:
- 1938-07-31
- 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-1-1260
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-31_log.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Log Entries of Letters for July, 1938 Letters July 2 L.H. about Midrash. van Andel (Holland). 3 Margaret 5 postcards to 4 children, A.G., Harry, Winifred, McCormacks, Mills, Maisie; letters to Karl & Harold. 8 Karl. Watt. 9. L.H. 12 A.S. Watt about T.E. manuscript & United States of America W.P.Watt with List contract. 16 Postcard change of address to Roz, David, publishers, agents, Press Cuttings; Letters to Watt & A.G. 22. To A.G., Pinker 23. Mills. 24 To Bank with £9 cheque. Willink (Holland). 25 Margaret. Customs. 26 A.G., Leonard, Alix & Harry, Roz 29 Customs. Watt about sizing T.E. book.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1718. Aug 1st Monday.
- Title:
- Aug 1st 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:
- 1938-08-01
- 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-1-1261
- 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_1938-08-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 1st Monday. The hottest day ever. Keeping windows shut. Working on poems. Getting Montague's room ready. * Alan & I worked on Dictionary Americanisms for Laura's report. Sent £50 to Deyá including Anita's £17 or so. Found bathing at the lake.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1719. Aug 2 Tuesday.
- Title:
- Aug 2 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:
- 1938-08-02
- 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-1-1262
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-02.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 2 Tuesday. Second anniversary of leaving Deyá. Went to Rennes with Laura. Taxi-man kept us waiting ¾ hour at Montfort which made us angry. Then furniture: 3 tables, 3 chairs for about 500 francs. The 5 tables, 3 chairs, 2 chest. of draws, 2 beds & mattress = about £14. The priest with blue eyes whom both L & I noticed separately. Iced coffee & bock. Anita gave me a bottle of Anisado . Getting Montague's Slept in only a sheet. Beryl & Alan bathed in the lake. No bats now.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1720. Aug 3 Wednesday
- Title:
- Aug 3 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-08-03
- 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-1-1263
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-03.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 3 Wednesday Montague arrived Poems still. Thrashing corn at the farm. Laura getting on better with her Macedonian Lives. Laura came for the first time to the Étang : the others all bathed, protested at by fishermen. First blackberries. Violent thunderstorm all night & much rain. Juan had promised us a cat from the entrepot : but a fish cart visited & all the many cats got inside, were driven away & never seen again – Miguel ran after the van weeping in vain.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.