Summoned by Bells

UVic Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives hold prized materials in modern literature, ranging from nearly 400 letters by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound’s elucidation of his poetry for a German translation. A featured series in the leading journal Modernism/modernity recently discussed the former, with British scholars demonstrating their fluency with UVic Libraries’ holdings. The library is reaching a broad audience indeed. Yet, the major collections of literary papers are the true stars. John Betjeman, Poet Laureate and perhaps the most popular British poet of the twentieth century, is in this elite Victoria club, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Robert Graves and Sir Herbert Read in Special Collections and Archives

Durrell's Delta and Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure"

This article retraces the publication history of Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure" and concludes its publication in Delta reflects Thomas' final intentions and revisions, despite the continued republication of its earlier witness in Wales in Thomas' collected works

HUMN 3220: Political & Social History of Music

An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All course materials, including textbooks, are included

The Personal Landscape & New Apocalypse Networks: Philhellenic, Anarchist, & Surrealist Late Modernisms

Although hegemonic Modernism approved of the Auden generation, and Fabian artistic networks receded as the movement gained institutional authority, the underlying anarchist threads remained a vital part of poetic activity into the 30s and 40s, and beyond