*My Name and I. New Yorker 26: 38, 6 January.

*For the Rain It Raineth Every Day. New Yorker 27: 28, 24 March.

The Language of Myth. Hudson Review 4: [5]6–21, Spring.

*The Survivor. Tomorrow 10: 41, May.

Bunyan at the Siege of Leicester. Times Literany Supplement, 11 May, p.293. [Letter.]

*The Young Cordwainer. New Statesman 41: 685, 16 June.

*Queen-Mother to New Queen– To a Poet in Trouble. Quarto no. 2: 5 Summer. [‘Queen-Mother to New Queen’ was revised in later appearances.]

*Primrose and Periwinkle – Prometheus – Darien. Hudson Review 4:204–207, Summer. [‘Primrose and Periwinkle’ is a revised and re-titled version of ‘The Young Cordwainer’.]

*The Ghost and the Clock. Tomorrow 10: 49, July. [Revised in later appearances.]

*The Survivor. New Statesman 42:160, 11, August.

*Questions in a Wood. Listener 46: 787, 8 November.

*Prometheus. Listener 46: 829, 15 November.

*With the Gift of a Ring – Cry Faugh! – The Foreboding – The Straw – Hercules at Nemea. Poetry 79:125–129, December. [The readings of the first four of these poems are as those in C385.]

*Damocles. New Yorker 27: 54, 1 December. [Revised in later appearances.]