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)
911. Saturday Oct 3rd
- Title:
- Saturday Oct 3rd
- 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:
- 1936-10-03
- 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-1-591
- 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_1936-10-03.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Saturday Oct 3rd Boil not so painful in morning but increasingly so all day. Still sore throat. Wrote to Eddie about Christopher Hassall's Devil's Dyke poems. Rested on L's bed while she went over poems with Joyce Reeves. Read War in Outline and wrote to L.H. about it.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
912. Sunday Oct 4th
- Title:
- Sunday Oct 4th
- 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:
- 1936-10-04
- 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-1-592
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-10-04.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday Oct 4th Managed to get up as usual and get breakfast (washing up in Mrs Reid's absence & do room) then no good for anything. Read Trollope's Dr Wortle's School . Norman & Alan to lunch, they took L out for fresh air in the N's car, L went over Alan's poems (Norman's first) & to supper with Alan. I went to bed. Cough: boil most painful especially at coughs.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
913. Monday Oct 5
- Title:
- Monday Oct 5
- 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:
- 1936-10-05
- 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-1-593
- 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_1936-10-05.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Oct 5 Got breakfast: great pain & bad headache all day. Laura & I swapped beds. Jennifer to lunch. She is going to India in a few days time; wants to get through to Afghanistan. Said we could have McCormacks house in winter; they are going to Dalmatia in November Honor & Gordon — they & Laura & Norman to supper at Norman's. Norman says that Dylan Thomas made a handsome apology. Carl got me supper. Long talk with L at 2 o'clock about the situation. Head & stomachache. Took homeopathic camphor & aconite.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
914. Monday Tuesday Oct 6
- Title:
- Monday Tuesday Oct 6
- 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:
- 1936-10-06
- 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-1-594
- 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_1936-10-06.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Tuesday Oct 6 Got up early, sat in two hot baths, shaved, got breakfast, great pain. Read War Birds . Honor again: Laura suggesting interviews for her. While propping myself up on a new pillow Laura bought; boil burst. Cleaned up but stayed in bed. Cough also gone. Cabled to Random house about solecism which appeared in the list sent us by H.S. as a proof of correct copy. Ward & Dorothy came: L went over Ward's poems & I played our solitaire game with D. Ros examined me, gave me instructions.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
915. Wednesday Oct 7
- Title:
- Wednesday Oct 7
- 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:
- 1936-10-07
- 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-1-595
- 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_1936-10-07.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Wednesday Oct 7 Laura to Bond St. with Karl. I worked on Schools . Have lost a lot of weight. Jenny to lunch & behaved very sweetly. Thinks she'll have a job with Jack Jackson in a B.B.C turn, fortnights. Worked on Schools in L's bedroom while Laura worked with Robin Hale; conflict on values, R.H. upholding sex as necessary and delightful. Had never come across L's point of view before. Wanted fame. Jealous of her 'cold' twin. Knew every Pole in London. Talk with L about Troy situation at Constables: not sufficient enthusiasm. Letter from Deyá; indicating that one can communicate via Barcelona Consulate & Short. Boil healing.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
916. Thursday Oct 8th
- Title:
- Thursday Oct 8th
- 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:
- 1936-10-08
- 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-1-596
- 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_1936-10-08.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Thursday Oct 8th Rang up Foreign Office & W. Pollock undertook to get a letter through to Hillgarth. Wrote to Rennes, to A.G. undertaking to pay £416 this year, to Time for Jenny about an incorrect report of her in the Sept 28th issue. Walk in Park, watched football, returned, ate ices. Kyllmann definitely will publish Troy . Wrote telling him what I thought of it as a commodity. * Wrote to Hillgarth enclosing photographs of Juanita & asking him to get chapters of bookstall version of Claudius from Canellun. Heavy cough. We all have it. Schools
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
917. Friday Oct 9th
- Title:
- Friday Oct 9th
- 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:
- 1936-10-09
- 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-1-597
- 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_1936-10-09.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Friday Oct 9th Letters from L.H. to Laura & me about our notes on his Outline quibbling and nasty. We both wrote severely, I proposing a separation of our works. Grateful phone-call from Kyllmann. To Antique Dealers Exch. Exhibition Laura bargained & got £2 off the £14 price for a 1680 gatelegged table. Letter from Pinker: investigating by phone found that Paramount were interested in Antigua . Also enquiry from 20th Century Fox . Went over Praise after Laura's rewriting: few checks. Wrote to Kyllmann specifications of Antigua advertising. To Maisie's for coffee: present Maisie, Ruth Field, Hankin, Senor señor & Señora Castelejos, Bill Orford, Miss Philips, L & I.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
918. Sat. Oct 10th
- Title:
- Sat. Oct 10th
- 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:
- 1936-10-10
- 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-1-598
- 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_1936-10-10.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sat. Oct 10th Maisie came & talked about things: limitations of present-day people chiefly. Rang up Black about money to Paris. Rang up Denham: arranged to meet Korda & Richmond on Thursday. Mentioned Antigua film developments. Table arrived. Bridget to lunch, tried on new blue bonnet-hat for Laura stayed till 5. To Kyllmann about advertising again. Rested in late afternoon: to news film with Laura. Saw Franco proclaimed dictator.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
919. Sunday Oct 11
- Title:
- Sunday Oct 11
- 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:
- 1936-10-11
- 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-1-599
- 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_1936-10-11.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Sunday Oct 11 Really beautiful day. (Boil not yet healed) Schools a little. Another letter to Kyllmann about Antigua advertizing advertising . Tom & Julie arrived at 6: went with them to 8 Nottingham Place where they have a room (4 guineas with breakfast) & then to supper at Cervantes Restaurant in ( Old Compton Street & to March of Time newsreel. (football pools film)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
920. Monday Oct 12
- Title:
- Monday Oct 12
- 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:
- 1936-10-12
- 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-1-600
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-10-12.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Monday Oct 12 Honor came. Lunch at Prada: Honor, Tom & Julie, Karl (“returned unharmed” from Mrs Lloyd's,) Laura, Jenny & me. With Tom & Julie [:] To Hanan: to alter shoe, too tight. To Allen: to alter clothes & order a new suit bla(brown & heavy.) Tom ordered a suit. Paid 3.15 for Jenny's photographs. Julie gave us an 1810 Baltimore lon silver spoon & Tom us a Dictionary of the American language Mencken. We sent carbuncle earrings to Jennifer (25/-)
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.