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)
1851. Nov 7 Monday
- Title:
- Nov 7 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:
- 1938-11-07
- 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-1-1359
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-07.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 7 Monday Laura had another octopus day. * Dictionary with her & Alan: sent off specimen pages. And with Alan alone. A hare pâté from Hotel Ouest, & Russian billiards with Dorothy & David at St Uniac Worked late on ' The Castle .'
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1852. Letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Herbert Read, November 08, 1938
- Title:
- Letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Herbert Read, November 08, 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:
- Read, Herbert, 1893-1968, Authors, English, Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944, Art historians, Anarchists, Painters, Authors, Poets, Poets, English, and Artists
- Creator:
- Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
- Contributor:
- Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
- Language:
- fre
- Date Created:
- 1938-11-08
- 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-5
- 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:
- letters (correspondence) and 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.
1853. Nov 8 Tuesday
- Title:
- Nov 8 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:
- 1938-11-08
- 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-1-1360
- 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_1938-11-08.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 8 Tuesday Dictionary , sorting phantasmagoria words, and went over typescript of Chapter IX of Swiss Ghost . At nights we read aloud 10 pages a time of British Social Life in India Cats still make messes in corners. Laura asked me to help in getting right a verse of Norman-&-her translation of Bâteau Ivre about lunules and black hippocamps. Two bound copies of my poem proofs came; sent one to Karl . My second pair of black corduroy trousers: paid. Dorothy got her wood and is beginning her statue of hand, head & wheel. Government troops cross the Segre, as Franco re-reaches right bank of Ebro.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1854. Nov 9 Wednesday
- Title:
- Nov 9 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:
- 1938-11-09
- 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-1-1361
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-09.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 9 Wednesday David's birthday: he had gout. We did not tell him we knew of birthday until lunch – Léonie had made him a cake for it. He got presents. With Alan Beryl Dorothy cleaned up washing place – put down sand, provided a packing case on which to lay clothes, dug a sump. Leonie & Marie are now doing all the washing. Polished Laura's bed & bedside table. Work on Castle Dictionary . In evening birthday celebration for David in Salon where a pumpkin ghost was, with a candle inside – made by me. Played a game: asking answering a sentence question, silently asked by someone, with a composite sentence, a word each. I asked: What news of Sally's coming? Answer: 'Ceremonious beginnings generally signify little previous experience of prophecy: but nevertheless this is significant in research on the subject, that findings continue to seem familiar.' Alan asked: What is wrong with Montauban? Answer: 'Rather hesitantly she answered said: I undertake no responsibility for this wretched circumstance in which we find you placed.' Laura asked: 'What is lacking here, if anything?' Answer: 'In time it comes about that queries which are also answers relieve anxiety, revealing perhaps everything important as truly as necessary.'
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1855. Nov 10 Thursday
- Title:
- Nov 10 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:
- 1938-11-10
- 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-1-1362
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-10.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 10 Thursday Laura worked until 3 am, so did I. But she has been up until 4 or 5 the last nights & slept late, having lunch in bed. Sunny day. Oaks still green, but most other leaves gone. Dictionary with Alan. More work on The Castle . Walk to St Uniac with Alan: but Russian billiards board not there at the café because of Armistice banquet tomorrow. Another walk with Beryl & Dorothy to the lake at night: fantastic trees under the moon. * * World & Ourselves & * Collected poems published today. Hear that I have to resign all T.E. pages because wrongly numbered.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1856. Nov 11 Friday.
- Title:
- Nov 11 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:
- 1938-11-11
- 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-1-1363
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-11.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 11 Friday. Dictionary 100 words and 12 pages of Castle . Dorothy having trouble with her clay hands of statue Beryl & I beat David & Alan twice running at Cambeluk. Midnight walk along Boisgervilly road with Dorothy. Laura wrote letters all day: & blurb for Left Heresy .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1857. Nov 12 Sat.
- Title:
- Nov 12 Sat.
- 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:
- 1938-11-12
- 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-1-1364
- 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_1938-11-12.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 12 Sat. Dictionary (115 words) Castle 14 pages World & Ourselves , and Collected Poems came. Also Hungarian Belisarius Also Wodehouse Code of the Woosters which we read aloud now instead of Kincaid . Very warm weather. German pogroms because of Vom Rath's assassination.* We burn 1 cord of wood a week = 3 cubic metres at 110 francs + sawing. Ordered 4 more. Later * We learn that they started ¼ hour before the shot was fired.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1858. Nov 13 Sunday.
- Title:
- Nov 13 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-11-13
- 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-1-1365
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-13.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 13 Sunday. Dictionary 85 words, Castle 19 pages. Laura writing letters mostly. She has nearly done 5th scene of 6 in Greeks & Trojans . I do about 4 hours of assorted house-work daily. Settled David has the gout Curious slight happenings again: disappearance of water from bedroom jugs, noises a bird tried to get in at Dorothy's window pane. Nothing sinister: only curious New decree-laws sending up prices of all semi-luxuries.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1859. Nov 14 Monday
- Title:
- Nov 14 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:
- 1938-11-14
- 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-1-1366
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-14.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 14 Monday So warm that Alan & I worked without a fire. Dictionary , another great batch of Castle . David went to Paris. I polished all the furniture in my room. I now work in the Salon all the time. Made oat-cakes on galette griddle with Quaker Oats & butter. Walk with Beryl at 10.30 to post letters & get a drink at station hotel. Too late & no matches for cigarettes – only glow-worms – about a dozen of them in hedges. A goodstrain with bright fire-box & about 60 trucks. Conversation at dinner (Laura reads out a bit about Voortreker celebration in Transvaal. All men taking part must wear real beards, girls must not stain nails or smoke.) Self. Voortreker: shall we put that in the Dictionary ? Alan. Not a word I should use myself. Laura. The Boers themselves don't use it unless they grow beards first.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1860. Nov 15 Tuesday
- Title:
- Nov 15 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:
- 1938-11-15
- 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-1-1367
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-15.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 15 Tuesday Hot & heavy. Laura did not feel well & spent evening in bed. At 12 o'clock I brought her a fire & her work but at 1 am she gave up again Cigarette famine, owing to new prices & withholding of existing stocks. The drunken menuisier brought Dorothy her mallet & would not be paid but wanted to be invited to fairé la chasse . He surprised D with an English sentence “Will you come with for a walk with me on Sunday?” Dictionary and Castle Long coals ember shovel from the Smith.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.