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)
401. June 1 Saturday.
- Title:
- June 1 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:
- 1935-06-01
- 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-1-100
- 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_1935-06-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 1 Saturday. Letters to Jonathan returning contract, Arnie Lawrence offering help in T.E. Lawrence memorial volume, Pinker telling him to pay Albatross money into my a/c, Sanders paying & asking him to send remaining books. To village for sheep-head. Everyone doing Focuses . Walk with Carl. Laura not too well. 1 lb of strawberries. Gelat in a murderous state about médico: seriously talked of killing him. Médico has gone back on his promise about not interfering with the water. Laura & I had to talk him into a quiet state of mind – offering to do everything possible to help. Broke a bit off tooth; must see dentist Thursday.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
402. June 2 Sunday
- Title:
- June 2 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:
- 1935-06-02
- 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-1-101
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-02.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 2 Sunday Claudius Film Version all morning. Afternoon: bullfight. Lalanda, Barrera, Ortega: all at their best. Each corto rabo y orejas in at least one bull. Only mar: a puntillero who couldn't finish off a horse trying several times & distracting attention. Ortega, whistled at for the dullness of his performance with the first bull , a difficult one, did some particular stunts in the second - turning the bull in a semicircle (kneeling) with a hand on its horns ending up with his back to the bull 2 yards away. Remarkable pic-ing by Ortega's picador. Letter from an Express man, whom I put off, from John Graves, Ros, Amy Graves and Eliot, saying he had forwarded my letter to Arnie L.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
403. June 3 Monday
- Title:
- June 3 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:
- 1935-06-03
- 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-1-102
- 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_1935-06-03.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 3 Monday Baker baked brown bread for us. Claudius Film Version Letters to John G.; Korda asking him for information. To village with Salamo: work begun today on Posada roof. Gelat feeling happier after getting lawyers' advice all round. To sea, bathed: Karl, Mary, Gordon (Honor had pains). Swam round to other bay. Collected stones: for the Posada this time ( Schwarz later). Then to Posada with Laura Honor Gordon Mary Karl - and Pepe to whom we gave orders for repairs and rebuilding. Letter from Harrison Smith saying that Claudius Film Version advance has been sent, from Pinker with news of Arnie Lawrence getting nasty about copyright infringement: but threat came through Field Roscoe, not Eliot. So wrote to Eliot explaining & asking him to act for me to restore dignity to situation. And to Pinker. And to solicitors of Evening Standard . Went through Laura 's Focus & mine to make them tally. Bed at 2.30.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
404. June 4 Tuesday.
- Title:
- June 4 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:
- 1935-06-04
- 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-1-103
- 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_1935-06-04.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 4 Tuesday. Cabled to Eliot, Pinker; Korda who last night cabled suggesting sending his brother here for a fortnight to work on Lawrence film-script. I said 'all right'. Wrote a long letter explaining the Arnie trouble, explaining copyright position with Eliot, suggesting Soller as a spot for the brother, mentioning Mary P. as typist etc, agreed to any reasonable terms, asking about Claudius schedule, mentioning Laura's impatience for an answer. To sea: stones. To village: Laura's Julie dress at Margarita. Letter from Harrison Smith about serialization. Oleander blossoming. One pear on pear tree: the first. Gelat business not yet settled. At sea today helped Sebastian & maestro's son bring up stones to Posada - donkey & sacks. Photographer took three photos for me - sea; Sebastian Salamo & Paloni and me: same without me. In evening café group also taken, with Gelat & Castor as well as all of us.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
405. June 5th Wednesday.
- Title:
- June 5th 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:
- 1935-06-05
- 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-1-104
- 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_1935-06-05.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 5th Wednesday. Got up at 6.30: posted Korda letter. Juan & electricista mended Mesquida light. Wrote to Ros, Mother, Gamage about Rora Dinghy for Sam from Laura; dictated three letters to Mary P. - Gamage about overcharge, H.S. about Claudius Film Version serialization, title, stills; Dulan ordering Andersens Walpole, Gaskell. To Posada with young Miguel - gave him orders for three windows and their shutters, & Antonio Cas Pintada Antonio de Ca's Pintat , orders for two doors. Five men working there. Everyone typing Focus -stuff: my job, dictating illegible hands. In evening went to conjuring show in old Café: cigarette swallowing, card tricks, auction of raffle tickets for a bottle of estomocal - Honor won. Gelat told us the story of how the Médico & Juan were intending to claim by right of “ retracto ” the Can Medo Can Madó land and fountain. He can get out of this by a trick. And he can turn the tables by claiming to buy Molí at the price paid - put as 25,000, really 75,000... - as the previous renter of the property: a new law. And will do so to pay for his 'dolores de cabeza' .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
406. June 6th Thursday
- Title:
- June 6th 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:
- 1935-06-06
- 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-1-105
- 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_1935-06-06.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 6th Thursday Up late, after a most long realistic dream about going back to school, & a headache. Worked all day, checking Focus contributions, except for visit to Posada where gave instructions about window sills, stones in living room, cupboard in kitchen, removal of tiles a painted tile from where it didn't show for interior decoration. This morning Sebastian brought up the remainder of the stones and also the log for Can Torrent. Letter from Neville Barbour promising Semitic assistance, from Constable saying that Arnie Lawrence was editing the letters himself for another firm, from Liddell Hart. Wrote to Liddell Hart telling him whose name, but asking whether mine had been in similar place: to Michael Roberts with list of poems for anthology & two more if he wanted, unpublished. To bed at 2 after posting letters.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
407. June 7th Friday
- Title:
- June 7th 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-06-07
- 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-1-106
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-07.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- June 7th Friday Gordon's birthday. Five tier cake from local bakery. To village to find cigarette[-making]-machine, mislaid. Couldn't. Finally Laura asked Solomon: it was in his kennel. Posada; six men at work. Three new window frames now in, and mina dug. Flowers for fiesta (carnations at their best; love in the mist going over) Some pages of Claudius Film Version To Ca'n Juni: will be a good many plums & apples, and a great many oranges. Gelat's news better. He has avoided danger of having Ca'n Medo Ca'n Madó sequestrated. Two lawyers came & said that Doctor's party has no case, & that water cannot be shut by judicial order until the case is lost, and appeal lost etc. Lawyers will see that Dr's party loses a fortune in prosecution costs. Gelat's costs will be paid by not having to run motor. (But nine days late for his plan of sequestrating Molí.) Gordon's party: white table cloth, red runner, cake, candles, pineapple ice from hotel, champagne. Desert island treatment. Gordon rhyme, Mary song, Carl essay, Honor drawing - me, dance in patio with Laura as orchestra. Then to Can Torrent. Beer, buffet. Gordon had to guess his presents by licking, feeling with feet & other tactile impressions. Letter-writing between us, Gordon's case subject of much correspondence between Laura & Honor, & Honor & me. Laura wore her 1860s dress.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
408. Saturday June 8th
- Title:
- Saturday June 8th
- 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:
- 1935-06-08
- 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-1-107
- 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_1935-06-08.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Saturday June 8th Focus to printers. Palma in new car: dentist, 15 pesetas, porcelain filling, no pain. Bank: drew out 500 pesetas. At Pomars bought Mary a pearl & garnet ring , 20 p. At Casas, for Posada, two old blue-glass bottles 5 p[ts], an old carved box for Posada 5[pts]., blue plate 8[pts]. For Honor a jewel-box, for me a jewel box. 2 pes., & two old Mallorquin 1 lb weights as paper weights. At Costa green & blue plate 10 pes. At shop next to Pomas, rose topaz earrings for Laura, 50 pes. Lunch at Parisien. “ Tengo un gato, un perro, un canario, a casa ” , for left over food. 40 Lucky Strikes at 1.50 a packet via Pomar's. A hat for me - Mallorquin superior straw. Chose tiles for Posada and also for Gelats Fábrica dance-hall. Chicken livers for Honor & Gordon. On return found Miguel had fixed the netting for the house windows in my workroom. Letter from Routledge about Lars Porsena .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
409. Sunday June 9th
- Title:
- Sunday June 9th
- 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:
- 1935-06-09
- 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-1-108
- 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_1935-06-09.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday June 9th To Posada, collected the tile. Claudius Film Version To Posada with Laura Carl & Miguel the carpenter: gave him order for glass door & sitting room window & repair of main door. Decided on new window in entrada, ventilation in tiny room, new stone benches etc. there. Schwarz to tea at Can Torrent. The Viñas went to the Foradada. Letter from Eliot giving Arnie Lawrence 's terms – fee of Evening Standard , surrender of letter, undertaking not to print; replied had always offered to pay fee, would not print this or other letter without permission or with; would not surrender letter because it was private. Very hot weather indeed. Reading Apuleius's “Discourse on Magic” [:] “I have now stated why, in my opinion, there is nothing in common between magicians & fishes.”
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
410. Monday June 10th
- Title:
- Monday June 10th
- 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:
- 1935-06-10
- 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-1-109
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-10.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday June 10th Fiesta (Ascension) Claudius Film Version finished Chapter about Claudius's Second Marriage. Looking for kittens: the wild delphiniums in full flower by the cuevas . Last strawberries. Sirocco starting up. Honor to supper. Letter to Pinker about what to tell Eliot he will pay Arnie Lawrence
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.