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)
651. Jan 31 Friday
- Title:
- Jan 31 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:
- 1936-01-31
- 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-1-344
- 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_1936-01-31.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 31 Friday Schools again. Karl to Soller, returned looking human. Gelat came and showed us a mysteriously anonymous circular letter sent to important people in the village about Mayor's duty to ask village to approve of Doctor's extra pay, & complaining of Dr's absence. Juan put up garden light and new round press-room one. Letter from Vyvyan Richards : passages from new book relating to us – might he send us, to approve. Replied friendlily, “please!” Hot day. Plenty of freezias for cutting. Gelat giving trees chemical manure.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
652. Feb 1 Sat.
- Title:
- Feb 1 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:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1936-02-01
- 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-1-345
- 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_1936-02-01.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 1 Sat. To Palma at 9.15. Laura 2 hours at dentist's: new plate. Strenge & Schw. Str had had operation to ovaries. Awful lunch at Parisien Restaurant. The Regnaux & “ MilPesetas ” & people who stared & whispered. At Margarita Mateu's bought old thick silk Mall skirt green with sheen,(900[pts.]) & white linen nightgown 10[pts.] & white damask runner 8[pts.], & at funny little shop where mirror came from a sort of scarf-bodice for 9 olive-grey with ivy trimming, for 9[pts.]. Bought photograph album; bird cage for us & for fabrica, not much else. Margarita to Areñal for week-end. In evening worked on Schools . Lemon & apricot planted at Posada.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
653. Feb 2 Sunday.
- Title:
- Feb 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:
- 1936-02-02
- 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-1-346
- 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_1936-02-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 2 Sunday. Schools again. L.H. having interleaving difficulty. Accounts from Pinker. Sent Arnie cheque for £5 – French publication of the T.E. letter, & wrote to L.H. to comfort. Solomon said by McCormacks to have mange. Gelat & I took him to Palma where vet. said “no, has burned his muzzle on some poisonous plant.” gave lotion Soller blacksmith & son came for designs. Marryat, Trollope & Richard Graves' “Spiritual Quixote” came. Supper at McCormacks. Stewed raspberries for first time since 1929 or so.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
654. 3rd January, 1936. Enclosure – Letter to RG from David M. Mitchell
- Title:
- 3rd January, 1936. Enclosure – Letter to RG from David M. Mitchell
- 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:
- 1936-02-03
- 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-1-347
- 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_1936-02-03_01_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Letter to RG from David M. Mitchell Hotel Costa D'Or Lluch-Alcari (Deyá) Mallorca España 3rd January, 1936 Robert Graves, Esquire, Deya, Mallorca. Dear Mr. Graves, You were, at Oxford Islik on the occasion that you do not recall, and recently when you called on me at the fonda here, very kind to me and that is why I am writing you now although I know you do not wish to have any more to do with the foreign colony in Deya than you can help, in order to be able to get on with your very significant literary work. It is of course up to me to respect your wishes in the matter by leaving you alone now that I have decided to live for some considerable time in Deya, but there is one thing which will be rather awkward for me unless I clear it up. That is the question of whether when we meet, as we are bound to do in such a small place and have done twice already, we are going to recognize each other. I am quite prepared to respect your wishes in this matter also: I just want to know one way or the other; and I am affraid that you may already think I have deliberately ignored you, thus repaying with rudeness your kindness. We have met twice since you came to see me at the fonda, once in the little café opposite the post office and once, last night, at the café deportive. The first time I thought that you deliberately did not notice me, and for this reason I did the same thing last night to you; but it has since occurred to me that perhaps you did not recognize me in the imperfect light of the little café, when I was too diffident to speak to you at first and only tried to catch your eye. I shall do whatever you wish in the matter. I think you are a genius, and that you are quite right to put your work first; but I find the present uncertain position very embarassing, and would like to end it. Yours sincerely, David M. Mitchell
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
655. Feb 3 Monday. Catherine's birthday
- Title:
- Feb 3 Monday. Catherine'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:
- 1936-02-03
- 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-1-347
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-02-03.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 3 Monday. Catherine's birthday Cold wind. Gelat sprinkling nitrates in garden. Enclosed letter from Mitchell. Replied through Karl that no necessity for letter & that since the situation had been thus complicated I would stabilize it at non-recognition. Going over Stealing homily with Laura. To Posada where paths now finished and lemon & apricot planted. Karl decided to take holiday in Palma. Finished going over Stealing late. Have had canary in my work room for the last few days. Freezias & wild anemone at their best.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
656. Feb 4th Tuesday
- Title:
- Feb 4th 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:
- 1936-02-04
- 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-1-348
- 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_1936-02-04.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 4th Tuesday Hair-cut. Liddell Hart sent new typescript & 2 letters which I answered. Cape wanted title “Side & Asides of T.E.Lawrence,” which I refused. To bed with bottle & worked on typescript. Hot sun, cold wind. One Willet Dorland came, an encyclopaedian Californian bore with roundabout introduction from Isabel. Wasn't invited to supper but taken to Sala for a drink. Laura going over Gordon's ' Enthusiasm '. Julie's mints finished. Read a Murder mystery. Jenny's first night at Cochrane Revue in London.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
657. Feb 5 Wednesday
- Title:
- Feb 5 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:
- 1936-02-05
- 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-1-349
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-02-05.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 5 Wednesday Blazing hot day. Sent off the L.H. stuff & letter. Laura couldn't work, so we went for a walk – to Can Mado and the saw newly planted trees, then to Can Jordi & saw the millstones, then to tea at Casa Salerosa (fearfully cold there). On return Laura still couldn't work; so to village again & heard radio news, & met Medora's sister of Son Corté. Sent off 4 Focuses , corrected, to Dorothy & Ward Hutchinson. Vet. saw Solomon again. Black looks of Catalina: who was privately talked to by Gelat. She had been told to go for a walk to the visit village to meet Maria Font Fresc & had gone in the other direction, & then chided by Laura.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
658. Feb 6 Thursday.
- Title:
- Feb 6 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:
- 1936-02-06
- 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-1-350
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-02-06.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 6 Thursday. Hot day again. Another 3 pages of Stealing added. Still undergoing cure, which has improved but not yet cleared condition. Old-fashioned reviews of P.of S. by Gerald Gould & Cyril Connolly Transcribing illegible parts of Stealing Karl turned up; better. We hired camion & took 15 people (Fabrica & Son Canals & the girls) to Soller to see film: “ La Hija de Juan Simon ” with Angelillo & a Spanish gipsy dancer. Back at 12. Rereading [Captain] Marryat's 'The King's Own' which I read 3 or four times between [Chapters?] 10 & 16. Maria Font Fresc gave us green fishing-ball.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
659. Feb 7 Friday.
- Title:
- Feb 7 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:
- 1936-02-07
- 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-1-351
- 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_1936-02-07.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 7 Friday. Cold wind, no sun. Karl back in Palma. T.S.Eliot's books came: also Eothen. Did Madelein Vara note to Enthusiasm . Barker's royalty reports came: £70 more than I had estimated. Wrote to A.G. Parchesi at Sala with Gelat & L. Finished King's Own: sailor crudities kills them all over for fear of sentimental ending. Laura went through 1st chapter of Antigua with me.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
660. Feb 8 Saturday.
- Title:
- Feb 8 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:
- 1936-02-08
- 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-1-352
- 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_1936-02-08.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Feb 8 Saturday. Bitterly cold wind. Completed 1st Chapter of Antigua . Rosa came Mr Richmond came trying to sell the antiques & furniture at the cottage at Biniaraix, & suggesting the McCormack's car on Wednesday. While he went to Salerosa by road I ran down the valley & up & beat him by five minutes, explaining the case to Mrs M. who said “But Mrs R is coming to live in that house with her sister in 2 weeks time!” She asked R. if when he came if Mrs R knew. He said no. So she called him a cad & said she wouldn't take anything from the house if he gave it to her.(R. did not know I had been there) & on his way back said that it was off because Mrs. M was aware of his difference with his wife). Pruned the syringa at the Posada. Nicholas & Hecate in adolescent & ineffectual love.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.