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)
1861. Nov 16 Wednesday
- Title:
- Nov 16 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:
- 1938-11-16
- 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-1-1368
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-16.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 16 Wednesday Same hot damp weather. Dictionary of Bible came & ditto Christian Biography – Alan had to lug them from Boisgervilly – a place I have never yet seen. Dictionary * Finished Castle : about 14,000 words David rang up from Paris. At Montauban Madame Perou and Alan & I had a talk. French poetry came up & I said it was like French jam – too sweet and without the taste of the fruit. She said: but like French jam, much clearer. I said yes, and insipid. She said 'Ah, but not Emile Zola!' Finished reading about the story of the Mutiny – the first book for some time – large print. * Government retired over Ebro: Anglo-Italian agreement signed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1862. Nov 17 Thursday
- Title:
- Nov 17 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:
- 1938-11-17
- 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-1-1369
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-17.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 17 Thursday Alan & I realize that there are not many thousands of words left to group for Dictionary – perhaps another 6 weeks. Going over The Castle again, now called The Castle-Keeper , and putting it into chapters. Plague of fleas. Juan came early to hunt with Monsieur Fauxchou. They toiled all day for 2 rabbits & a hare: he gave us the hare. Anita rang up that her pregnancy test was negative – which suggests a growth. So Juan went back to her as soon as he came in. He brought back my watch, mended, and Laura's green glass Majorcan brooch & my Marius Aquillius are mended. David, from Paris, brought a few cigarettes only, not enough and chocolate beans, rum, Eno's etc. Alan went to the village had 2 Pernods , fell off bicycle & cut his cheek, was given Calvados , then drank wine & rum. Was very sick. The cats bathed by Beryl & Dorothy.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1863. Nov 18 Friday.
- Title:
- Nov 18 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:
- 1938-11-18
- 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-1-1370
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-18.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 18 Friday. We Laura & I went to Rennes in the afternoon and there Anita told us that the word was not 'negative'. We suggested 'positive' & that was it. Laura went with her to the Clinic where it seems appeared that she was having a child and that the birth might be awkward but not very. So we drank champagne. I got four glasses of the bottle which made me sleepy in the car on the way home. I did the shopping, things like really good beef & watercress & root-celery and endive which one can't get in the village: and a pair of goloshes. There were two discursive & wet letters from Montague to Beryl & Laura. Laura & Dorothy stayed up to 5 am answering finally. No dictionary today but I finished going over The Castle-Keeper .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1864. Nov 19 Sat
- Title:
- Nov 19 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-11-19
- 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-1-1371
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 19 Sat Four cords of wet wood arrived, unsawed. I burn the lengths in the Salon and when they are ends not lengths transfer them to other smaller fires. Dictionary with Alan Toothache all day. Began a poem about pursuit & leisure. Dorothy's wood split in her carving. Laura looked into our book about Poets again.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1865. Nov 20 Sunday.
- Title:
- Nov 20 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:
- 1938-11-20
- 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-1-1372
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-20.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 20 Sunday. Dictionary with Alan, getting much quicker now at sorting. Laura working with David most of day: Greeks & Trojans at night. We discussed next chapter of Swiss Ghost . More work on poem. Russian billiards with Alan on a very fiery tilted table at Priour's café. Very wet weather.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1866. Nov 21 Monday
- Title:
- Nov 21 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:
- 1938-11-21
- 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-1-1373
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 21 Monday No reviews yet of poems published on the 18th – preliminary suscriptions amounted to £7.19/- O. Belisarius published today in United States of America A mad letter from Mary Lucy saying that she is mediumistic & always having feelings about me – & I must not tell anyone. I was very angry and told everyone present. Recently she wrote of a dream about my breaking my glasses & getting eyestrain: but she got it wrong, it was Alan who has done this. All day except Dictionary And on poem. At 12 p.m., when Beryl Dorothy & Alan came to have tea with me in the Salon, I asked Beryl to burn it, which she did. Work on Swiss Ghost Chapter X
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1867. Nov 22nd Tuesday
- Title:
- Nov 22nd 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:
- 1938-11-22
- 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-1-1374
- 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_1938-11-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 22nd Tuesday Dictionary & work on Swiss Ghost . Old man sawing wood for us. Watt phoned that I would have to go to England to sign sheets of Lawrence books in time for Christmas publication. I refused, & he arranged that a Miss Nernie would bring them to Paris for me to sign there. That clouded the day, & it rained heavily too. Laura working mostly with David: & wrote letters in my bedroom most of the night. Evening walk with her along Boisgervilly road.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1868. Nov 23 Wednesday.
- Title:
- Nov 23 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:
- 1938-11-23
- 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-1-1375
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 23 Wednesday. Alan will come to Paris with me. Dictionary , Swiss Ghost doing [Figure – drawing of arrow, pointing to “Dictionary” ] colours and adverbs today. Dorothy made a beautiful flapper of blue & silver. The little black cat still recovering from its bath – the petroleum in it was too strong. Chamberlain & Halifax visit Paris: are booed. Beryl's joke: Frappe, frappe, Qui là? Allemand. Allemand quoi? Alimentation .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1869. Nov 24 Thursday
- Title:
- Nov 24 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:
- 1938-11-24
- 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-1-1376
- 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_1938-11-24.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 24 Thursday Dictionary & 16 pages of Swiss Ghost . Waiting all day for news from Watt. Finally telephoned: stuff not arrived. Expected tomorrow. Walk to Montauban with Dorothy: who has got a worried letter from Mary about Montague O dear. Laura on Furniture & Greeks & Trojans Chamberlain Petit Henri brought a present of mistletoe.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1870. Nov 25 Friday
- Title:
- Nov 25 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:
- 1938-11-25
- 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-1-1377
- 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_1938-11-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Nov 25 Friday Dictionary We waited most of the day for a telephone call from Miss Nernie in London. It came at 4 and we arranged to meet in Paris at 10.30 tomorrow for me to sign the sheets. Margaret has lost her job from being separated from her husband. Karl has got permanent leave to live & work in England.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.