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)
1731. Aug 14 Sunday.
- Title:
- Aug 14 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:
- 1938-08-14
- 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-1-1274
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-14.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 14 Sunday. Top of grandfather clock fell on my head, so humbled it by taking it to a stable for hens to nest in. Made a telephone-chair from one with a hole in and the top of a sundial (1726). David arrived, rather cross after a crowded crossing from Southampton. L & I talked to Montagu clarifying his problem: letting him see what the problem various parts of the question, sex, Mary, Dorothy, Home Office, 'serious work' looked like. He was still undecided. I sawed wood for the fires. Laura going over D's 'Sculpture'. Beryl offered an illegitimate baby at St. Uniac. Late at night L Alan & I had a dictionary consultation.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1732. Aug 15 Saturday Monday Assumption
- Title:
- Aug 15 Saturday Monday Assumption
- 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:
- 1938-08-15
- 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-1-1275
- 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_1938-08-15.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 15 Saturday Monday Assumption This is the day on which Hitler is supposed to be invading Czechoslovakia and there has been a rush of gold-hoarding. Anyhow a bad day. Cold & cross. Anita gave us some greengages for jam, so I had to make it as they were going bad; over a wood fire in my bedroom. Dorothy helping; but then more talk with Laura & Montague – he has almost decided to go out & seek his sexual fortune – so she stopped & the jam caught and I didn't put enough sugar & boiled up again with jello and not enough jars :about 17 pounds of it – Then Alan got cross because Laura arranged two chairs as if in consultation with his own in the staircase room he is using as a study, with a bolster upright in his, and Montague hanging about like a skeleton at a feast. Laura doing Rimbaud – called me in. – A widow from Boisgervilly called, for a job at the beginning of September Everyone crossly peeling mushrooms. We sat around the fire in the dining-room talking painstakingly at night; my back aching with the low chairs. My dolly-washer arrived from England.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1733. Enclosure – “Assumption Day”: draft of poem by RG
- Title:
- Enclosure – “Assumption Day”: draft of poem by RG
- 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:
- 1938-08-15
- 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-1-1275
- 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_1938-08-15_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – “ Assumption Day ”: draft of poem by RG Assumption Day What was wrong with the day, doubtless, Was less the unseasonable gusty weather, Than the bells ringing on a Monday morning For a church-feast that interested nobody could welcome – Not even the bell-ringers. The pond had shrunk: its yellow lilies Poked rubbery necks out of the water. I paused and sat down crossly on a tussock, My back turned on the idle water-beetles That would not skim, but floated. A wasp, a humble-bee, a blue-fly Uncoöperatively at work together Were sucking honey from the crowded blossom Of a pale flower whose name someone once told me – Someone to be mistrusted. But, not far off, our little cow-herd Made mud-cakes, with one eye on the cattle, And marked each separate cake with his initials. I was half-tempted by the child's example To rescue my spoilt morning.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1734. Aug 16 Tuesday
- Title:
- Aug 16 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:
- 1938-08-16
- 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-1-1276
- 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_1938-08-16.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 16 Tuesday Laura feels much better about bulls now that there is one in the field by the lake with the cows and le petit Paton (who makes mudpies while tending it) despises & le petit Henri feeds. A poem about being cross. Dorothy & Montague went. Telephone wires put in. Beryl has a workroom in an attic. Dorothy and Montague went off: we don't expect to see M. again. He even thought it appropriate to suspend work relations. David got a charcoal stove from the smith's: much appreciated for coffee making. We have fires in the evenings now. A great sense of peace with M. gone.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1735. Aug 17 Wednesday.
- Title:
- Aug 17 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:
- 1938-08-17
- 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-1-1277
- 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_1938-08-17.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 17 Wednesday. Preparing for James & Ethel Reeves. No work at all either before or after they came. * We were just showing them over La Chevrie when Anita (who is having another child) Juan, Juanita and Francisca Ripoll arrived & stayed the whole afternoon. A game of 7 ¼ with James, David, Alan, Beryl, Juan, Anita, Laura, me; in the course of which I won 44 francs – to buy 4 lottery tickets for general benefit. Tea & coffee & cakes on the grass on the lake side of the house. In the evening we sat round the fire in the dining room – more full of bees than ever – building up by contributions in turn the story of a sick engineer with troubles with his wife & initials C.M.L. and a temptation to go to Sweden and a fussiness about clothes; and another about a woman of 58 who hunted, had been to Portugal, lived in Earl's court, inherited money, had a solicitor friend with whom she played a complicated card game. James gave us a brown lustre sugar basin and we him the glasses I got in the Place de la Bretagne.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1736. Aug 18 Thursday
- Title:
- Aug 18 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:
- 1938-08-18
- 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-1-1278
- 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_1938-08-18.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 18 Thursday James & Ethel occupy our days. They are late for all meals and difficult about food: but in the evening Laura cooked dried figs with wine, salt butter, lemon, cordial Medoc and they were enraptured. No work got done, except some that Laura did with David and I finished a poem in 3 drafts about Assumption Day . A very lovely hot day.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1737. Aug 19 Friday.
- Title:
- Aug 19 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:
- 1938-08-19
- 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-1-1279
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 19 Friday. James set me a poem to write about a Signpost: he has one to write about Speed. I had great difficulty with mine. Changeable weather: Beryl sick but recovered towards night and was then stung in bed by a bee. Ethel who came to Montauban with me was very sick on her return, & sick all night. Laura got no work done. In odd moments I saw wood in the shed: mostly old oak boards. * Telephone installed. Called up Anita at once. But no night calls!
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1738. Aug 20 Saturday
- Title:
- Aug 20 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:
- 1938-08-20
- 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-1-1280
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-20.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 20 Saturday Finished The Fallen Signpost in five drafts: no,six. James discussed it with me and found two words for me. A rainy day. Not much work. Laura working on Americanisms for the Dictionary plan. Sawed wood for exercise and kept three fires going. Visit from M me Perou & family. In the evening we had a sort of party: punch with red wine, lemon, nutmeg, brandy. And making up a story of adventure, which went queer largely because of Ethel who was difficult and said gross things about the Clever & the Great. And a game of relations. i.e. if Robert were a battle, Laura would be a siege, Alan a peace-treaty, Beryl arms, David the letters home. If James a lake, Robert a road, Ethel the view, If Laura a clock: then David a mantlepiece, Beryl a round table with one leg and no drawer, Alan a chess-set etc.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1739. Aug 21 Sunday
- Title:
- Aug 21 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:
- 1938-08-21
- 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-1-1281
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 21 Sunday James & Ethel went off at 12.25. The weather is alternate sun & shower. Housework, sawing logs, got 4 pounds of blackberries with Beryl by the lake in half an hour. Nancy wrote for an extra £91: I replied I had not got it. Cleared out a locked cupboard containing the Château title deeds & family papers. The name was Chauvin des Orières, of which the Countess was the female heir. I
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1740. Aug 22 Monday
- Title:
- Aug 22 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:
- 1938-08-22
- 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-1-1282
- 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_1938-08-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 22 Monday Wrote several long letters & had my hair cut at Montauban but otherwise did nothing but housework. Have had a cricked back and the weather is lugubrious. Laura doing Rimbaud , the Americanism note for Little Brown , and worked on David's Furniture until 3 am. Modeste given notice: she was delighted at the arrangement as she has been concealing the fact that she wants to go to Rennes to look after two fellow-deafs. Dartboard inaugurated on attic landing.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.