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)
901. Thursday Sept 24th
- Title:
- Thursday Sept 24th
- 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:
- 1936-09-24
- 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-1-582
- 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_1936-09-24.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Thursday Sept 24th Looking over Alan's poems; wrote to Mrs Churchill, Black about the £1000, A.G enclosing £52 for Sam's school. Catherine to lunch, and Jenny, at Prada's. Afterwards Jenny Laura & I went through her life-story with her. Then with Catherine to Selfridge to buy her chocolates & marshmallows etc for school; then saw her off at Marylebone St Station. Norman to supper: getting Jenny's life in order for her, Karl typing it. Laura going over Norman's poems. Reassuring news of Government counter-offensive at Talavera.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
902. Friday Sept 25th
- Title:
- Friday Sept 25th
- 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:
- 1936-09-25
- 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-1-583
- 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_1936-09-25.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Friday Sept 25th 21st anniversary of Loos. Left Jenny's life at Charles', collected Timothy, who was very well-behaved. Went to Caledonian market. Bought pinchbeck chain 2/-, carbuncle & red glass brooch 4/6, dark blue Victorian beads 1/-, Victorian tartan stamp-box 2/6, blue Wedgewood platter 5/-, completed solitaire set at 2d a marble, turquoise ring 15/-, French carved shell and silver powder puff (1790) 15/-, length of silk 2/6, soup-plates 1/-. Also for Maisie Wedgewood coffee pot 6/-, Scotch brooch 2/6, for Dorothy a brooch 2/6, a shell with cameo of Wellington for Gammers Hall (The Hutchinsons). Karl took Timothy to a cinema. Started on a difficult poem. In evening David Reeves came & worked out with Laura dimensions of a jewell-case for her.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
903. Sat. Sept 26th
- Title:
- Sat. Sept 26th
- 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:
- 1936-09-26
- 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-1-584
- 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_1936-09-26.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat. Sept 26th Worked at the poem: tore it up. Lunch with Glendinning at Prada: he explained the composition of Constable's. Went down the Caledonian road looking for a table to replace the limed oak one in the living room – nothing. Feet ached Shin muscles ached with the pavement. Anxiety about Spain. Going over Harry Kemp's & Ward H's poems with Laura for Epilogue . Margaret Russell's Parker pen which she sent me refitted with a medium nib; cushions from Heal in brown glazed chintz.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
904. Sunday, Sept 27th
- Title:
- Sunday, Sept 27th
- 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:
- 1936-09-27
- 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-1-585
- 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_1936-09-27.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday, Sept 27th Richards came at 12.30 and stayed with us till 11 (news film). He was very pleased & talked a little too much: rejected food at Prada's as not in his line, but enjoyed cold supper at flat. Told of Blaina's unemployment problem – “all as happy as trout.” Has just got his birth certificate clearing up the mystery of his birth. His real name is Francis Philip Woodruff & his father was a colliery owner. Spanish news still more anxious. Richards & I called on Jenny, who was had heard nothing from Charles.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
905. Monday Sept 28th
- Title:
- Monday Sept 28th
- 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:
- 1936-09-28
- 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-1-586
- 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_1936-09-28.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Sept 28th Honor & Julian came: Julian played with marbles. I lunched with Faber & Morley at Simpsons – with Richards. After hot brandy at a pub with R. & M. Morley was surprisingly better than I had expected. I told him that Auden was a thief. He agreed – 'a magpie'. Faber was surprised. Silverside, Stilton, lager, port. Laura had lunch with Norman & Honor. To Antique dealers exhibition with David Reeves Grosvenor house. Great sameness of exhibits: bought 5 Hester Bateman teaspoons (45/-)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
906. T ue hur sday. Sept 29th
- Title:
- T ue hur sday. Sept 29th
- 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:
- 1936-09-29
- 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-1-587
- 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_1936-09-29.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- T ue hur sday. Sept 29th Checking Harry's Philosophy , for Epilogue , with Laura; & the reconstituted Ward Hutchinson poems. Charles has returned Jenny's life – saying that she ought to say how what chorus girls earn their & how they spend their money. Letter from Mallik after 12 years: he is coming to England. Written as if all just the same as ever. Lunch with Eddie Marsh at Etoile . He is now personal secretary to Malcolm Macdonald. We had thought to Ramsay, & were surprised that he thought him so nice and that he had never heard a word against him. To Selfridges: L. bought lizard shoes & mackintosh, I, mac, warm slippers, brown jersey. Bridget to supper (black hat & volant for L.): stories about the beastliness of rich customers: Mrs Foch, Mrs Simpson etc. Lost wallet with £2. ? ¿.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
907. Wednesday Sept 30
- Title:
- Wednesday Sept 30
- 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:
- 1936-09-30
- 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-1-588
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-09-30.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Wednesday Sept 30 Poem about writing a poem. No good. Laura to Doctor who reassured her about her heart tonsils and appendix: told her to stop smoking because of inflammatioin of throat. New spotted muslin curtains in work-room. Walk in Park with L. (Dahlias.) Michael Sadleir & Miss Smith (publicity) of Constables. Talk about impossibility of selling good books. To Student of Prague and Bed & Sofa at Forum under Charing Cross station. Temporarily stopping smoking except for a cigarette after each meal.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
908. Nightwood (1936)
- Title:
- Nightwood (1936)
- Description:
- This seminal modernist prose work is notable as one of the early prominent novels to portray explicit homosexuality between women. It mixes prose and poetry and could be considered metafiction. T.S. Eliot edited the book and the 1937 edition has an introduction by him. Because of concerns about censorship, Eliot edited Nightwood to soften some language relating to sexuality and religion. An edition restoring these changes, edited by Cheryl J. Plumb, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1995. "The plot focuses on a transvestite gynecologist called Matthew O’Connor, and Nora Flood, who is in love with the androgynous woman Robin Vote. Barnes began work on it after the breakdown of a relationship with the American artist Thelma Ellen Wood (1901–1970). According to the critic Clare L Taylor, it has ‘one of the most shattering endings in modern literature’." --British Library
- Subject:
- Fiction--Technique, Literature, Modern, Man-woman relationships, Nightwood (Barnes, Djuna), Lesbians--Social conditions, Twentieth century, Lesbians, Lesbians--Sexual behavior, Modernism (Literature), Manners and customs, Decadence in literature, Lesbians in literature, and Degeneration
- Creator:
- Barnes, Djuna
- Contributor:
- Robert MacLehose & Co. and Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
- Publisher:
- Glasgow ; Printed by R. MacLehose and Company Limited, The University Press. and London : Faber & Faber, 24 Russell Square, Mcmxxxvi [1936]
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1936-10
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- License:
- This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Call Number: PS3503 A614N5 1936
- Extent:
- 239 pages ; 21 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- France--Paris, Germany--Berlin, and Europe
- Coordinates:
- 48.85341, 2.3488 and 52.52437, 13.41053
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- literature (general genre) and fiction (general genre)
- Date Digitized:
- 2014-01-30
- Technical Note:
- Metadata by KD.
909. Thursday Oct 1
- Title:
- Thursday Oct 1
- 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:
- 1936-10-01
- 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-1-589
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-10-01.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Thursday Oct 1 Transferred bank account from Chiswick to Harley St. Bought the 10 H.Bateman dessert spoons we had seen at the Grovesnor for £9.9/-. Went over Parents to Children poem with Laura for Epilogue : not much change needed. Went for a walk down Albany Street to Zoo. with L. & K, exploring. Huge tenement housing schemes. Mixed grill at Camden Town Lyons. Working on Schools again. Sore throat. Laura bought, for 5/6, snake's wood walking stick.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
910. Friday Oct 2nd
- Title:
- Friday Oct 2nd
- 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:
- 1936-10-02
- 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-1-590
- 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_1936-10-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Friday Oct 2nd Sore throat. Working on Schools . Jenny to lunch, also Frank Richards, who said goodbye. On return found another of those boils starting – had one in 1929, one in 1930. Painful. Rested in Laura's room, while Laura went over poems with Robin Hale, a big handsome girl. Letter from Rennes, enclosing one from Deyá. Francisquito's letter mentions rabbits at Can Mado. Maisie came: told of Kitty West's bolt to South America.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.