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)
731. Sat. Ap 18th.
- Title:
- Sat. Ap 18th.
- 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:
- 1936-04-18
- 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-1-422
- 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_1936-04-18.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat. Ap 18th. Cold wind. Gelat did not go to Madrid because of general strike there (on account of fascist activities not properly controlled) and bad sea. Yesterday's wire was a round up of Fascists. Worked over First Trial chapter (XII) in the light of Fuller's legal advice. Went down to sea. Hot in the sun. (Pedro and Catalina still in Palma) First Sweet Williams out at Can Torrent; and yellow carnations. Margarita told Str. “ Canellun doesn't always come here: that's only natural. They have half-share in the Sala café. But they always buy meat.” So we visited her this afternoon & had beer, whisky whiskey & soda, coffee etc – Krasniks disgusted to find us in their café. Abelin & Werner outcast because suspected of denouncing Krasnik and Leman (in Austria & Germany), but still have Ickes and the Proxies as friends.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
732. Sunday Ap 19.
- Title:
- Sunday Ap 19.
- 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:
- 1936-04-19
- 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-1-423
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-04-19.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday Ap 19. Cold still. We had a fire last night in the Mesquida. Thomas Wiatt Wyatt framed. Finished the trial chapter (31 pages) but too messy for typing yet. Cleaned it up late at night. There was a slight trouble with the light at Can Mado so they put on the jolty motor at the Fabrica. First Midges this year.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
733. Monday Ap 20.
- Title:
- Monday Ap 20.
- 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:
- 1936-04-20
- 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-1-424
- 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_1936-04-20.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Ap 20. Today I consider A.P.P. finished apart from obvious jacking-up & corrections. And today I am stopping my medicine, as cured at last — 5 months. Broke the Wiatt Wyatt glass so took it again to Miguel whom I took to the Posada for measurements of lavatory seat, lavatory door, well-head beams. Gelat went to Madrid today. Because of working by bad light last night couldn't do much today; but cleared away necessary letters.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
734. Tuesday Ap 21.
- Title:
- Tuesday Ap 21.
- 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:
- 1936-04-21
- 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-1-425
- 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_1936-04-21.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Tuesday Ap 21. Going word by word through Ant (first 42 pages) for discrepencies. Carl typed Chapter 11, & I went through that too. At 12 o'clock Marjorie Launder & Alan Bartlett turned up from Soller, friends of James: she a schoolmistress, he an official at the Ministry of Agriculture. They stopped to lunch. Afterwards to the Posada & finding the church open, L.K, & they went in (she borrowed my hat). I stayed outside with Solomon. The cura showing off before two nuns said: “ Eso es intolerable. Que salgen. No pueden entrar en este edificio sin mi permiso. ” Laura wrote a letter to the Fomento de Turismo , with the other three as witnesses, to complain. Letters from Constable to Laura about H.S. business – want to deal themselves at 5% commission. And theatrical letter from Gordon. And from Yeats asking for Laura's poems: perhaps she will refuse as 'her 'husband' had already done. Warmer: a little rain.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
735. Wednesday. Ap 22
- Title:
- Wednesday. Ap 22
- 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:
- 1936-04-22
- 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-1-426
- 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_1936-04-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Wednesday. Ap 22 Working over Ant . all day. To the sea, but did not bathe: without Solomon for a change. Several Four different sorts of orchid seen. Laura wrote letter to Fomento de Turismo about the Cura : on a blank signed by Bartlett & Launder. New moon for money. Heavy weather.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
736. Ap 23rd Thursday.
- Title:
- Ap 23rd 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:
- 1936-04-23
- 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-1-427
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-04-23.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 23rd Thursday. Sam & David write to say they are coming in the summer. Sam sends ship picture. Wrote to A.G. and to L.H. Ant . slowly. Have got to page 143, jacking-up all the time. Laura has bad throat still: went to bed early with it. Wire from Gelat from Madrid: 'Todo va bien' . Laura's denuncia of the Cura forwarded to Azaña. Laura has chill from not going to bed after a late hot bath on Tuesday. Reading “Letters of Susan Ferrier ” . Gave Schw a Can Pabo Rose, from the Posada ,.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
737. Ap 24th Friday.
- Title:
- Ap 24th 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:
- 1936-04-24
- 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-1-428
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-04-24.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 24th Friday. Working over Antigua , Karl typing 'insertions' me inserting them. * Sent off Trial chapter & letter to W. Fuller. Hot day. Tom has reviewed O.S.S. well in Time . The pansy-geranium from Miguel fetched & planted. The first strawberry. Wild cyclamen first noticed.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
738. Ap 25 Saturday.
- Title:
- Ap 25 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:
- 1936-04-25
- 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-1-429
- 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_1936-04-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 25 Saturday. Lovely day. First white climbing roses. First passion flower. The anemones still go on. Antigua gone over as far as page 176 and all insertions gummed in. Will probably reach 270 pages or more. To sea, but did not bathe. The last two days too rough, today too sea-weedy. Marjorie & Allan came to the Fonda from Soller. We had supper there & afterwards saw a 1910 (?) Chaplin film, about motor races. Solomon now keeps faithfully to heel all the time. Laura started actually writing ' Troy ' again. She is bad with throat still but continues to smoke and won't see a Doctor.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
739. Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre & Right withdraw)
- Title:
- Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre & Right withdraw)
- 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:
- 1936-04-26
- 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-1-430
- 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_1936-04-26.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre & Right withdraw) Have jacked up Antigua (making a table of dates) as far as Chapter XIV. Now transcopying, to have a spare copy. Have done 3 chapters. No letters, these days. Hot. To sea, but somehow didn't feel like bathing. Punch in the evening with Str & Schw. Alan and Marjorie & Karl. Punch had wild strawberries in, and superior champagne. A. & M. had nothing to say for themselves. Lefts of Deyá polled 96 votes
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
740. Ap 27 Monday.
- Title:
- Ap 27 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:
- 1936-04-27
- 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-1-431
- 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_1936-04-27.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Ap 27 Monday. Antigua – jacking up Chapter XV & transcopying Chapter 4, 5 and 6. Whole batch of excellent O.S.S. reviews. Wrote to Richards. Walked down the valley, up by Son Bauza. Gelat returned. Had seen the expediente & defended himself to Masquelet, who gave him a solemn assurance that all was well. In the expediente report, derived from the expediente , lies and omissions which Gelat and his lawyer answered. G. & L. both vaguely accused of nefarious antecedents. There is some Palma Staff-Colonel who has done this. G. also got proceedings against carabineros dropped. He brought us a fine leash (vellum halft ) for Solomon. Tea with M. and A. at Can Torrent. Masquelet will pass through Deyá one of these days. Honor wrote to Mrs Glover saying that if she was there, she'd slap her face.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.