Mother Goose’s Lost Goslings. Hudson Review 4: 586–597, Winter.
*Lovers in Winter. New Yorker 27: 76, 19 January.
*The Foreboding – Cry Faugh! – The Straw – With the Gift of a Ring. New Statesman 43: 101, 26 January. [‘The Straw’ and ‘The Foreboding’ were revised in later appearances.]
The Pharisees and Jesus. [With Joshua Podro.] History Today 2: 108–112, February.
Mr. Alexander Clifford. The Times, 28 March, p.8. [Obituary.]
*I’m Through with You Forever. New Yorker 28: 89, 29 March. [Revised in later appearances. Title later revised as ‘I’m Through with You For Ever’.]
The Future of Western Religion. Nine 3: 209–219, Spring [April.]
The Shout. Fantasy and Science Fiction 3: 75–90, April. [See C612.]
*I’m Through with You Forever. Spectator 188: 543, 25 April. [Revised in later appearances.]
*A Pinch of Salt. Saturday Reivew 35: 8, 3 May. [Saturday Review of Literature became Saturday Review in 1952.]
*The Housing Project. New Yorker 28: 113, 17 May. [Written under the name Trevor Sevarg.]
*Dialogue on the Headland. New Statesman 43: 746, 21 June.
Jungian Mythology. Hudson Review 5: 245–257, Summer. [Review of Introduction to a Science of Mythology by C. G. Jung and C. Kerényi, translated by F.R.C. Hull, Bollinin Series, 1951.]
*Rhea. New Statesman 44: 109, 26 July.
The Seventh Man: Tributes to Sir Max Beerbohm on His Eightieth Birthday. Listener 48: 338, 28 August. [Part IV is by Graves.]
*Thc Sacred Mission. Poetry 81: 39, October. [Revised in later appearances.]
*Dethronement. Atlantic 190: 75, December. [Revised in later appearances.]
*Advice to Colonel Valentine. New Yorker 28: 26, 27 December.