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)
461. July 29th Monday.
- Title:
- July 29th 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:
- 1935-07-29
- 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-1-158
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-29.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 29th Monday. All morning at Richards getting the Boxer Rising story right from his two accounts & the encyclopedia. In afternoon working over first part of Honor's Life after Laura, then sea, then with Honor again Laura over Molly's [L]ife. Gave Richards [manuscript] to Carl to type. Made lemonade ice. Picked several pounds of blackberries with Carl for jam. (Jars came.) Very hot weather. In evening Laura wore her John Ewen dress with the Honor sleeves & the Robert mother of pearl buttons & buckle. A new type of emboquillado with filter mouthpiece. Laura composing blurb for By Each In Turn. Did Gordon's [L]ife all night with Laura. Walked along road discussing title: finally L. thought of A Mistake Somewhere by 3 Private People . Laura's dress torn coming up grotto. Worked till about 2. Hot wind. Jokes about seeing e to e in spelling of unbudgeable. Mortgage lifted from Canellun after 3 years.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
462. July 30 Tuesday
- Title:
- July 30 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:
- 1935-07-30
- 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-1-159
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-30.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 30 Tuesday Pasted in Richards insertions, then did Honor's [L]ife, a part. Then in afternoon did blurbs, together, of A Mistake Somewhere , & Moon's No Fool . Sea. finished Fearfully hot on beach. Solomon wouldn't come up because I was wearing bathing dress until top of cliff to save sweaty shirts, instead of changing. More Honor . Gelat came & told us about suspect who was here a few weeks ago. Sidney behind? Mad enough. Today G. signed warrant about the water-interdict. Case next week. Thinks he'll lose, & gain on appeal after 6 or 8 months. Accounts: Said we'd give him 2000[pts] more as fuente investment. Mortgage is now finished: Canellun itself again. Finished Honor's life, got all in order: sent off. Cooked up blackberries, got out juice. Stupid letter from Harold to Laura. Worked on Richards to 3.30 Laura writing to Harold & Constable all that time. Wrote to Mary about Richards etc.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
463. July 31 Wednesday.
- Title:
- July 31 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:
- 1935-07-31
- 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-1-160
- 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_1935-07-31.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 31 Wednesday. Up at 7.30. Wedding of Francisca the Modista and Juan Gelat's nephew. At new café: nice atmosphere. Bride wore hat: innovation. Magdalena joking. Visit to changed Viña Vieja. In morning more work on Richards . Girls cooked up blackberries with sugar only leaving me to pour out. 5 lb pots & about 16 tiny pots. Success. ex-mustard. Sea: left wristwatch there. Went over Epilogue blurb with Laura & made lemonade-ice. Nice letter from Michael Roberts. Laura cabled would he could come if he liked. Put paper in jelly-jars. Went over James Reeves blurb with Laura. Catalina came (owed 24p[ts].) & had ice, also Isabel, her mother, Josepha & Catalina's boy who also got 1 pes. Then worked with Laura at Epilogue blurb & she did Progress of Stories blurb & I went over it, and then there was a statement to make about Seizin Press Publishing in the Constable list & we nearly fell asleep working out a point, & I went over the proofs of James Reeves' poems & we nearly fell asleep working out a point in one of the blurbs & then it was 3.30 a.m. again.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
464. August 1 Thursday.
- Title:
- August 1 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:
- 1935-08-01
- 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-1-161
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-01.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- August 1 Thursday. Tomatoes in great quantities now and aubergines just starting, also pimientos. Not up until 12. Then Richards and getting that point with Laura. Amador came with damsons & green plums & sugar. Post in Deyá by Ferrocarril camión at 11, another post out at 5. This saves a day. In afternoon checking proofs of James Reeves again with Laura while girls startedstoning the plums for the plum jam. Made the damson — 11 lbs & sealed up. A little Richards. Boiled up some old marmalade which had gone sugary. Proofs with Laura until about 3 o'clock. Then posted them. Beautiful storm out to sea: no thunder
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
465. August 2 Friday.
- Title:
- August 2 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:
- 1935-08-02
- 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-1-162
- 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_1935-08-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- August 2 Friday. Up at 10: made jam. Used Fábrica cauldron which 'caught' all the time. Transferred to our own enamel preserving pan & stainless steel saucepan. Made 8 2lb pots & 6 1lb. Richards. Fixed wire on Schw. peacock bowl & hung up in entrada ; also stag bowl, exchanged with Troy for rabbit picture. Laura having first rest for weeks. At sea which was roughish: cool wind: various things on shore, including dragon — for blasted heath tree & nest and a lot of husks of palm etc. Found wristwatch lost since day before yesterday at foot of cala–rock where I hadhad a tussle with Solomon who again would not come up rock because I was not dressed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
466. Aug 3rd Saturday.
- Title:
- Aug 3rd 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-08-03
- 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-1-163
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-03.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 3rd Saturday. The day that the Mesquida table was moved, end up to the Mesquida picture: Laura & I sitting opposite each other. Other changes, which sent a plate over to Can Torrent & fixed the inlaid table in the screen corner. Richards . No sea today. Paid Amador for cigarettes. Sala tiled now, except for dado affair Planted dahlias with Sebastian. Made blackberry & apple jelly: in the middle Laura wanted to read out her contingent will instructions to executors. We worked on these until 2 a.m. In the middle I tried to squeeze the juice through a cloth but it went wrong & I made a lot of mess, & waste. I got supper, made ice, cleared away. Laura kept Karl employed for several hours. Josefa told me that it was the 9th of the month — from Laura's the Señora's calendar. Laura's diary nearly a month out of reckoning.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
467. Aug 4 Sunday
- Title:
- Aug 4 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:
- 1935-08-04
- 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-1-164
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-04.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 4 Sunday Cooller Cooler . Got up very late, shortly before lunch. At 2 o'clock decided to go to a bull–fight. Went. Karl, Juan, Laura & I. Laura in yellow with net gloves & amethyst ring. Matadors: Jaime Noain, PepeGallardo, Rodrigo FernandoDominguez. Procession of Misses in cars around the arena & 3 bands. Noain's first bull very weak[;] let off banderillos . Gallardo's very cowardly wouldn't face horses: took a long time to kill: second remainder better but the matadors though hardworking & going through all the motions didn't appeal. Noain got ears. Gallardo goodish in second bull but took four shots at the discabello descabello . Dominguez second bull — in half-dark — earned claps for a picador , among the few that were given. Dominguez got a cogida in right through the fleshy part ofleg and elbow (we[?] think) (lying on his face while the bull attacked him) but insisted on continuing & killed at first attempt: then carried to hospital. Got ears.Biscuit glacé at Alhambra 4 coñacs & beefstake beefsteak . Gelat gave us information confirming our ideas about S.St. On the way back from Alhambra near Gordiola saw the procession of (15th?) Century horsemen with candles in cupped sticks resting on their stirrups, red-coated guards & an illuminated Catalina coach with Bengal flares & four horses pulling children in Mallorquin costume, and singing Republican anthem.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
468. July 8 Monday August 5th Monday
- Title:
- July 8 Monday August 5th 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:
- 1935-08-05
- 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-1-165
- 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_1935-08-05.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- July 8 Monday August 5th Monday Wrote to Bank, asking them to for Laura paid Isabel's mother's fare on condition that same stays. Dream about strange hall of a house in 1900-ish London: over the door a faded print called “In the Gay Old Days. The Duke of Westminster celebrates his Coming of Age in the Company of 10,000 Ladies of the Town.” The D. of W, a long-faced fair-haired young man in evening dress, elbows on knees staring greedily forward: in the middle of an auditorium full of girls with doll faces and wasp-waists. Girls boiled up the blackberry & apple jelly which I poured out & sealed: it made 12 small pots, very stiff. Algarrobas falling. Richards all morning. Laura has bad stomach. Afternoon, sea: buried stinking corpse of a kid on foreshore,in company with the Staff-Colonel staying at Son Bauza, who was grateful on account of his wife & children with him. Laura going over Fantasia & writing a letter to Constable about business names. We went through Documents. New arrangement made for files. I wrote to Eliot asking him to approve Wills of both & return; to Pinker asking Hogarth Press's profit-sharing scheme, what percentage; to Westminster enclosing our joint-account application. For second time running got salt-water into the ice. Finished going over Richards manuscript so far as he sent it. Gelat came & told us about enquiries he made about the spy, whom the Police know nothing about, may be a Private Cop. Also about Pedro & his shameless brother in law & political moves now taken to settle water dispute.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
469. Aug 6 Tuesday. Gelat's Birthday.
- Title:
- Aug 6 Tuesday. Gelat's Birthday.
- 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:
- 1935-08-06
- 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-1-166
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-06.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 6 Tuesday. Gelat's Birthday. Checked typing of Richards all morning. In afternoon sea with Karl: found a few pebbles. (Sea warmer than air, cloudy day) Started a poem: no use I think. To village with Laura & Carl (first time for a long time) & Schwarz to whom gave pot of blackberry & apple jelly. Child lost an eye, from playing ballon San Juan . Third child this year to lose an eye (11 years, 11 years, 5 years — detonator, stone thrown, ball on elastic.) Laura visited Carmen. I cross–copied Fantasia , 2 copies (3 hours). One copy to John [Aldridge] .
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
470. Aug 7 Wednesday.
- Title:
- Aug 7 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:
- 1935-08-07
- 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-1-167
- 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_1935-08-07.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Aug 7 Wednesday. First greenfigs, from Gelat 's Vinyet: very hot, tiring weather. Went over my checks of first chapter of Cressida's Troy with Laura: at Troy. Mostly points about Priam's & Aenaeas's ancestry, which Laura finally stabilized. Then checked second chapter for Laura who wrote to Len; & Karl's transcription of Fantasia . At 12 o'clock Laura went over points of Richards' first chapter with me. Bed at 2. First almonds. Sebastian sprays the drive every day.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.