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)
1781. Sept 23 Friday
- Title:
- Sept 23 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:
- 1938-09-23
- 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-1-1314
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-09-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 23 Friday Checked some cross-copying of Wives & found Beryl had made 33 mistakes in 24 pages. Dictionary . Habits are now:– Morning bicycle to Montauban. Work. Lunch. Postman just after lunch. Darts with Alan . Work until 5. Saw & chop wood. Change. Work until supper. Cambeluk after supper. Work. Bed about midnight. Letter of apology from John Lucy: Mary has been ill. The psychologists say he isn't mad, but madly jealous – and the cure would be for her to sleep with him again!
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1782. Enclosure – “Rappel Immediat”: French call-up announcement
- Title:
- Enclosure – “Rappel Immediat”: French call-up announcement
- 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:
- 1938-09-24
- 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-1-1315
- 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_1938-09-24_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – “ Rappel Immediat ”: French call-up announcement [No markup of this item is available yet.]
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1783. Sept 24 Saturday
- Title:
- Sept 24 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:
- 1938-09-24
- 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-1-1315
- 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_1938-09-24.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 24 Saturday Rain all day and notices out calling up all French reservists of category 3 i.e. 2 classes. The people calm and silent: “if there's a war, best to get over with it. The Italians don't count: they are only petits soldats ” (Russia has warned Poland to keep out of Tchechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ) A brave & warming letter from Eric at Prague: 'the fiends will meet their fate & at the hands of their own countrymen.' I went to a dentist early at Montauban: he said toothache was only sciatic nerve – the tooth was dead. We all have twinges of rheumatism here. Dictionary all day. We do not expect war in any serious sense.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1784. Sept 25 Sunday.
- Title:
- Sept 25 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:
- 1938-09-25
- 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-1-1316
- 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_1938-09-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 25 Sunday. Knocking down walnuts from the tree – half a sack full. Dictionary all day. Situation better: general hardening of opinion against Germany everywhere. Czechs reported to have refused Hitler's terms. Laura working on Aristotle for Lives of Wives , Harry's mathematics, Swiss Ghost , etc. Cambeluk is a good game and does not repeat itself – always new situations. Poor Anita rang up miserably.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1785. Sept 26 Monday
- Title:
- Sept 26 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:
- 1938-09-26
- 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-1-1317
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-09-26.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 26 Monday Hitler's ultimatum to the Czechs expires on October 1. It is taken less & less seriously by responsible people. Dictated letters to Beryl: chiefly of reassurance to people in England. Dictionary . Conference with Laura about Swiss Ghost (rest of Chapter VIII) Gathered about 6 pounds of mushrooms with Alan and made ketchup – out of my head. At the last moment remembered mustard as the ingrediant lacking (vinegar, pepper, salt, sugar, lemon-peel, onions, garlic – mustard). It made about a quart – including a pint of vinegar. (My hands stained with irremovable walnut juice.) Léonie helped at the blé noir battage .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1786. Sept 27 Tuesday.
- Title:
- Sept 27 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:
- 1938-09-27
- 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-1-1318
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-09-27.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 27 Tuesday. Swiss Ghost : restarted, and dictionary in evening. Wireless at 6 at Hotel Ouest packed with refugees from Paris. Day very rainy. Sent off revised proofs of Collected Poems .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1787. Sept 28 Wednesday
- Title:
- Sept 28 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:
- 1938-09-28
- 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-1-1319
- 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_1938-09-28.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 28 Wednesday Consternation in village at Hitler's new ultimatum to Czechs which expires at 2 pm (Then general mobilization) probably to terrorize Parliament which meets at 2.45 pm. The Levrels came to be comforted. Cats misbehaving everywhere. Sunny day. Dictionary & Swiss Ghost Juan Anita & Francisca came out: we got mushrooms. Juan behaves very sensibly. At 6 he took us in a car to listen to the wireless. Chamberlain told Parliament that Hitler had been persuaded to a 24 hour postponent while he & Deladier Daladier & Mussolini conferred with Hitler. Everyone relieved at the Hotel but our gorge rose. Fresh mobilization. orders in the village
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1788. Enclosure – Letter from David Graves
- Title:
- Enclosure – Letter from David Graves
- 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:
- 1938-09-29
- 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-1-1322
- 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_1938-10-01_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Letter from David Graves POULK PRESS . BOAR'S HEAD . OXFORD Oxford 85321 David Sept 29 ..as you yourself say 'nothing serious will happen'. As to 'filters,' the English are merely taking the necessary precautions. They are not at all panicky. As to what I am going to do, I received a circular from Cambridge telling me not to go up until I was told. If war should break out, I should almost certainly enlist. In which case, Brittany is not at present feasible. When things have blown over, I should love to come. Meanwhile, I am digging a 12' x 4'6" x 7' deep trench in the garden. After that, I shall volunteer for A.R.P. work. I am fully convinced of the necessity and justice of Britain's stand against Hitler and will be very willing to fight! (Please Turn Over) Ben & Barbara & nurse & maid & triplets are all staying here. We all have gas-masks. Sam & Catherine will stay at school, Catherine being invaluable as head girl. About Jenny I don't know. Presumabl Presumably she will stay where she is. She is v. happy there. So. Love from David P.S. I'd like to see a copy of your book poems when they are out.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1789. Sept 29 Thursday.
- Title:
- Sept 29 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:
- 1938-09-29
- 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-1-1320
- 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_1938-09-29.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sept 29 Thursday. Dictionary and 6 pages of Swiss Ghost (making 13 new pages) from Karl's notes of a trip to Como & our own memories. Strained a lumbar muscle hitching up a cloth wire clothes-line to a fir tree (from a cypress) and cutting away branches which interfered. 5 pounds of mushrooms & made another lot of ketchup. A fair in Montauban, where everone was drunk, Alan says. Everyone now says 'there will be no war' and Alan heard on the wireless an account of the famous Rogues meeting at Munich. All they said was that the room was large & pink. Laura finishing part of David's Furniture to show Watt.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1790. Log Entries of Letters for September, 1938
- Title:
- Log Entries of Letters for September, 1938
- 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:
- 1938-09-30
- 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-1-1321
- 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_1938-09-30_log.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Log Entries of Letters for September, 1938 Sept 1 Watt (Finland); N.N. with £92; refusal to autograph book. 3 Cerf with blurb; Watt with blurb. Jenny, Margaret, A.G. 4. Schwarz; Honor; Gordon; Julian. Dorothy S; Ward; Karl; 1st set of proofs to Cassell. 5 George Buchanan 7. Haas (for money) Watt about delay of Wives (: until December 4th) 11. Watt about 'Ebro' publishing: Anderson about proofs. 12. Rest of Proofs to Cassell. 13 Dorothy 16 Anderson about proofs. 22 Honor 26 Margaret, A.G., Sally, Kitty, Proof corrections to Anderson. David G. 27 Revised proofs to Anderson.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.