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)
2081. Ap 8 Sat
- Title:
- Ap 8 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:
- 1939-04-08
- 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-1-1518
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-04-08.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 8 Sat Heavy mist; then hot sun. Walked to S.Uniac cross with Dorothy; and Ethel who talked too much and made bird-noises at us. Russian billiards at the café and triple-sec. David is definitely coming on the Paris : sharing cabin with me. Packed box for Deyá storage. * Finished going through Shorter Oxford Dictionary with Alan & sorting relevant words. Packed our boxes of words.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2082. Ap 9 Easter Sunday.
- Title:
- Ap 9 Easter 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:
- 1939-04-09
- 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-1-1519
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-04-09.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 9 Easter Sunday. Beautiful weather A day chiefly of walks: Lucienne left with her grandmother and was given 5 francs and an Easter egg Laura had a long talk with Ethel about talk. Proofs & so on until 2 am Dorothy has cleaned & polished the twisted hazel club she rescued for me from the fire.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2083. Ap 10 Easter Monday
- Title:
- Ap 10 Easter 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:
- 1939-04-10
- 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-1-1520
- 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_1939-04-10.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 10 Easter Monday Got up early to see Ethel off All five of us walked back from the station (where Laura nearly kept Ethel's witch cloak by mistake) by the Lake. There is apple & cherry & plum-blossom and almost-peach and beds of violets & primroses, & celandines (pink primroses & white violets near the house) and spotted orchids. Jays, pies, sulphur, orange-tip, cabbage whites. The chestnut trees out, not the beeches or oak yet, but the hazels beginning. Very hot. Bellamy given to the Hotel Ouest The McCormacks came via Avignon from Jugoslavia Yugoslavia : so pleased to see one another. They gave A & B J n slippers, & Dorothy gloves & Laura heavy gilt earrings & me two silver bobbles. Proofs, packing, labels until 2 am
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2084. Ap 11 Tuesday
- Title:
- Ap 11 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:
- 1939-04-11
- 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-1-1521
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-04-11.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 11 Tuesday Sent off advance luggage to Havre for America & luggage for storage in England – Revaudet's camion . Walked about in the sun with McCormacks who left after lunch. We gave them a petrol lamp. Dent contract signed today. Léonie better – she will go to Anita's. Proofs Evening light on cherry tree.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2085. Ap 12 Wed.
- Title:
- Ap 12 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:
- 1939-04-12
- 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-1-1522
- 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_1939-04-12.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 12 Wed. Léonie is secretly engaged to the commis at the farm 'Montague's negro' so Anita won't engage her for a few months only. Anita keeps on 'phoning for reassurance about the War: this is another Crisis time – French troops called up, Germans massing on various frontiers etc. Woodpecker going all day. Proofs. Very hot weather. Dorothy has made a wand for Tom (oak, with a knot-hole) & round objects for Julie & Katharine, each, out of bark of a rotten oak branch, & a hornbeam heart-shaped thing for Laura.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2086. Ap 13 Thursday
- Title:
- Ap 13 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:
- 1939-04-13
- 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-1-1523
- 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_1939-04-13.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 13 Thursday Packing lesser luggage. Cuckoo & woodpecker. Miserable day. Proofs
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2087. Ap 14 Sat. Friday.
- Title:
- Ap 14 Sat. 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:
- 1939-04-14
- 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-1-1524
- 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_1939-04-14.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 14 Sat. Friday. A letter from Schuyler: & all well. again. We went to Rennes to say goodbye to Anita & Juan Showery day with brilliant sun: Laura bought shoes, we bought pink flowers for Dorothy & a camellia for Beryl & Dorothy bought me a rose-&-grey silk stock. Walking round the old part of We ate at 7 rue Nemours: Francisca, Miguel, Anita (who could only eat apple compote), Juan, Jeanine, the Mallorquin commis , Gabriel: Laura, Alan, Beryl, Dorothy, me: & everything was lovely. Poor Arthur Barker has failed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2088. Ap 15 Sat.
- Title:
- Ap 15 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:
- 1939-04-15
- 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-1-1525
- 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_1939-04-15.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 15 Sat. Proofs, walks by the lake (waterlilies) Dorothy mending things for us. Goodbye party at Hotel Ouest – their invitation. Cherry tree in full blossom: illuminated by sunset. Mme Perou, Paulette, Mlle Louet, le Grec (Post OfficeP.O.), M.Bouliou (Pinson's wicked clerk) two little nephews (Jean & Louis) and we five. Jokes about Alan (Un bock – visiter à M. Pinson. Un faveur a demander ) about Dorothy in general, Alan's imitation of M. Schoine the tailor, mine of Madame Perouin (je suis si oublieùse – ce bon M. Chamberlain qui a sauvé la jeunesse d'Europe ) Laura to Paulette was 'ma pauvre petite madame'. We were made to drink too much and everything was lovely.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2089. Ap 16 Sunday (Summer time)
- Title:
- Ap 16 Sunday (Summer time)
- 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:
- 1939-04-16
- 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-1-1526
- 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_1939-04-16.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 16 Sunday (Summer time) I dreamed that someone had said that Hercules not only went to Lyons but to Mons Albana (Montauban) to plant apple-trees. Proofs at 10.30 after a long day packing: up to 3.30 am Anita's baby not yet Wild narcissus. 'Nimrod': bond of immediate intelligence between L & B.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
2090. Ap 17 Monday
- Title:
- Ap 17 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:
- 1939-04-17
- 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-1-1527
- 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_1939-04-17.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 17 Monday Proofs at 9.30 after a long day packing: a goodbye to the village – M. Pinson, the Hotel where we had Calvados & things, Priour's where we had cherries, Schoine, the Post Office. Cigarettes to M. Pinson who wanted reassuring about war. Nono now very affectionate suddenly: he is to go en pension to Léonie, waiting for us to take him to Deyá. All had headaches all day. We eat 'cachets Faivres' Laura's watch that I broke repaired.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.