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)
541. Oct 17 Thursday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-10-17
- 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-1-238
- 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_1935-10-17.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 17 Thursday Put new paper in vellum notebook. Sent bull-advertisement (Belmonte) to Sala (where pictures greatly appreciated) & took wire to village telling Beck to get on with things. Médico approached Gelat through Juan Moli's wife & Juan Vives suggesting an arreglo . Gelat replied he did not propose to talk to Médico, but his offer held to give the people water who had a right to it if they told what hours they wanted. Black & white wing feather of hoopoe: gift of Juan Vives. Got down blankets & other winter things from attic. Letter from David giving sensible reasons for wanting to go to Cambridge: Oxford depressed him. Replied O.K. Application from A.A.Simpson “Poems publishable?”: replied discouragingly. Decent letter from Michael Roberts: replied. And from Arnie Lawrence: thanking for information about books: replied suggesting Mynotz Hagen Began long letter of protest to Left Review . In evening we worked out 66 to exhaustion point. Laura got a 'Tailor' & Karl is owed 6 pesetas 60[centimos] in presents.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
542. Oct 18 Friday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-10-18
- 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-1-239
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-18.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 18 Friday Finished letter to Left Review . Dahlias at their best. Anenomes nearly all up. Cuttings all seem to have taken. A few roses again. Maria Luna came for interview: seems all right, only too talkative, a little & too knowing, a little. Dug up no-me-veras-sin-sols & transplanted them across the path, with Karl's help. Also got sand to mix with the earth, for tulips. The old woman of Calabat came in sight with a sister & the Papa. Yesterday the Papa & the Médico were hanging about the Calabat side of Canellun & their idea is to buy the terraces, we think, & plague us into rebuying them. Gelat will get hold of the son-in-law. (Tried tonight) Schwartz came to the Sala: did not like the noise of the radio, otherwise all right. Tired by digging & went to bed, trying to get Address to Customers right.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
543. Oct 19th Saturday.
- Title:
- Oct 19th 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:
- 1935-10-19
- 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-1-240
- 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_1935-10-19.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 19th Saturday. Rosa came: with new linen trousers for me & the collarless jacket with, red & blue, from an old skirt of handwoven cotton. Worked all morning on final Claudius corrections mostly will & shall, should & wood would — also Vesuvius, aconite, Cymbeline, Aramaic & similar points. Laura wrote to Beck. All afternoon planting tulips (leaf mould, sand, ordinary earth) some (Clusiana) 6 inches deep (Kauffmannia) 4, others 3-4. Gave 8 to the Strenge & Schwarz Worked without a shirt. Seeds coming up: Scabious, poppy, Af Marigold, Madora's flower & godetia. Sent off corrections to Arthur Barker — 5 pages of corrections. To Amy Graves enclosing David 's letter & offering to pay Nancy Nicholson for Sam's specialist. Strenge & Schwarz at Sala, where pictures now were hung up, also red drop curtain for stage. Gelat has first option on Calabat (and from the son-in-law.) Catalina roast-beefed us, & later we had a hot bath. Pancho's money having given out, he returned
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
544. Oct 20 Sunday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- 1935-10-20
- 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-1-241
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-20.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 20 Sunday No criada today. Housework. Reworked Address to Customers , now called Receipt for Moneys ; & if Laura approves recent reworking etc now have 15 poems. Cooked lunch. Laura working on Schools . Answered W.B.Yeats' anthology request for: Pure Death , Land of Whipperginny , Dialecticians , Landscape , & his threat to come to Mallorca this year. Dark drizzly day. Potted out two pinks, Can Massiana flower, & two bulbs unknown. Laura wrote to Norman Went to Costa D'or Hotel & had fish & pork: overcharged as usual. (Heavy rain) Played 66 there Went over Karl's typing of Almost Forgotten Germany Laura wrote long letter to Nathan Reichenthal? in answer to a nasty one of his.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
545. Oct 21 Monday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-10-21
- 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-1-242
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 21 Monday The day Maria Luna came to us. Work Got up at 6 & went to village to order things. Then worked all day on Almost Forgotten Germany (200 pages). Raining. Went to Salerosa, borrowing pinks and also wall-flower seedlings, put them in at the Posada (syringa in bloom there), where the water was up to the first join. Cutting of jasmine, or is it plumbago, from Can Bi. Nothing from Sabater. Gelat spoke to him seriously. 'Our corner' at the Sala cleared of extra chairs. The new woman Anatolia gave us good soup & grilled peppers without their peel. Laura doing ' Schools '.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
546. Oct 22 Tuesday
- Title:
- Oct 22 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:
- 1935-10-22
- 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-1-243
- 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_1935-10-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 22 Tuesday Cold, cold weather. Corduroys & heavy socks. Up early & taught M Anatolia to get breakfast. Men working on Casita ; making a bridge, too. To Posada: planted violets, freezias, red geranium creeper, stuff from the tunel , nasturtiums, ancharisa, passion flower. Water steady in well. Also marigolds. Excellent meal, from customary ingredients. Wrote to Honor, Hillgarth. Old Soldier Sahib has been accepted as the title: entries about dum-dum bullets & the Drunken Private's name & regimental number. Laura cleared out my folders for me. Investigation programme for Schools . Aqueducts book came: thanked. Laura finished introduction to Schools : I read it over then. More money from Germany £73 odd in all. From Harrison Smith sending Old Soldier Sahib advance, asking about Fool of Rome Replied must first write to Korda. (Did so.) Gelat in bed with cold. Juan reports 3 dedos of snow at Valldemossa. On the way to village heard terrific crash of peñasco . Laura reminded me of a joke of mine. It makes a blankverse line And cellophane, the nudists' winter-wear. Another excellent meal.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
547. Oct 23 Wednesday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1935-10-23
- 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-1-244
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 23 Wednesday Took down Obras Publicas : put up Laura's story Anatolia finds work too hard, but likes us. Her cooking justifies getting other help. To Posada, watered the flowers, recovered Salamo's lead. Gelat took better. Juan & J.Vives shot 3 rabbits, driving in car between olives at Valldemossa, chasing the rabbits with headlights. Gave us one. Took Sally stove to Can Torrent: Laura nearly decided to leave Troy: then changed. Put lock on Anatolia's door. Laura dreadfully tired from housework, clearing out cellars etc. Hernandez died.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
548. Oct 24th Thursday
- Title:
- Oct 24th 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:
- 1935-10-24
- 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-1-245
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-24.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 24th Thursday Much warmer. Casita half-risen: preparations for blasting rocks in the orchard. Karl 'muffish' so strangeness all day. He told me finally that he had had a headache all day & eaten nothing. Went over Schools introductionwith Laura . Kept Sally going all day for Laura: who wrote a long letter to James. Telegram to Constable about Epilogue spine. Letter from Kegan Paul about Lars Porsena . All afternoon gardening — making a long row of St Brigid's anemones in properly prepared earth: hitherto all clay in that front part of the flower-bed. Transcopied Schools . The inlaid mirror came: hung up in Mesquida; also shaving mirror for Karl. Catalina came: & Anatolia, keeping in the kitchen did her stuff. Laura writing to Sally Graves about her poems in Troy in the evening: me too, at the round table, checking Karl's typescript of her poems.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
549. Oct 25 Friday
- Title:
- Oct 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:
- 1935-10-25
- 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-1-246
- 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_1935-10-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 25 Friday Looking over books in search of Schools material. To Posada where planted some double stocks. Lars Porsena copies came: started work on them. Wrote to say I would. Potted out the 'obispo' in a fabi . Pepe put up tomato-rack in cellar. Spli Blasting rock in orchard. Laura back at Troy work. It rained furiously in the night. W
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
550. Oct 26 Saturday
- Title:
- Oct 26 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:
- 1935-10-26
- 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-1-247
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-26.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Oct 26 Saturday Working at Lars Porsena . To Palma Laura decided to go to Palma to get maids. (At 2 o'clock)to Short & various places in El Terreno. Gelat did most of the work.Bought glass fruit plates, tablecloths, rings for Magdalena & Anita , needles etc; ordered candle-grease coppers, silver button-brooch for Laura's Ibiza jacket. A tortoise stove for me. Letter from Honor: hope about her cottage. Rosa brought a new brown shirt for me. To bed early. No news yet of Calabat bancals . Blue velvet cushion made from skirt of Laura's.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.